During the war this former slave & Underground Railroad conductor was a spy for the Union in South Carolina
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Harriet Tubman - Wikipedia  Harriet Tubman was an American abolitionist, humanitarian, and an armed scout and spy for the United States Army during the American Civil War. Born into slavery, Tubman escaped and subsequently made some thirteen ... When the Civil War began, Tubman worked for the Union Army, first as a cook and nurse, and then...
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Harriet Tubman - National Geographic Kids  ... her life as a conductor in the Underground Railroad, which led escaped slaves ... the former slave also served as a spy for the Union during the Civil War and was ... along the Combahee (pronounced KUM-bee) River in South Carolina.
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Harriet Tubman  Underground Railroad "Conductor", Nurse, Spy  Tubman married a free black in 1844, and changed her first name from Araminta ... During this time, her reputation in the abolitionist community grew, and she ... her services to the Union Army, and in early 1862, she went to South Carolina to provide badly needed nursing care for black soldiers and newly liberated slaves.
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Harriet Tubman - Civil Rights Activist - Biography.com  Apr 21, 2016 ... Harriet Tubman escaped slavery to become a leading abolitionist. ... a mini biography of legendary Underground Railroad conductor Harriet Tubman, who .... River Raid, which liberated more than 700 slaves in South Carolina. Harriet Tubman - Union Spy (TV-PG; 1:44) During the Civil War Harriet Tubman...
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Harriet Tubman Conductor of the Underground Railroad Civil War  Harriet Tubman was a runaway slave from Maryland who became known as ... Civil War she was a spy with for the federal forces in South Carolina as well ... During the Civil War, Tubman worked for the Union army as a nurse, a cook, and a spy. ... She recruited a group of former slaves to hunt for rebel camps and report on...
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James Armistead Lafayette - Wikipedia  James Armistead Lafayette (December 10, 1760  August 9, 1830) was an African American slave who served the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War as a double agent. He served under the Marquis de Lafayette, reporting on the activities first of Benedict Arnold  after he had gone over to ... After getting the consent of his master, Armistead volunteered in 1781 to join...
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Underground Railroad | HistoryNet  Underground Railroad summary: The Underground Railroad was the term ... Approximately 1862 with the start of the The Civil War ... Sometimes a "conductor" pretending to be a slave would go to a plantation to guide the fugitives on their way. ... punished but was freed at some point after Union troops occupied the area.
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J! Archive - Show #9, aired 1984-09-20  Richard Willing, a newspaper reporter from Detroit, Michigan (whose 1-day .... Harriet Tubman, who freed over 300 slaves, was 1 of its foremost "conductors"...
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Harriet Tubman, conductor of the Underground Railroad. | Great ...  ... can't say  I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger. ...... the $20 bill with a woman has chosen 19th-century abolitionist, Harriet Tubman. .... Revealed: Ancient Appalachian people who boasted of Portuguese ancestry to...
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Civil War Prison Camps - Civil War Trust  prisoner of war, andersonville, POW, belle ilse, camp douglas, point lookout, ... Tramp, Tramp, Tramp: Hear The Famous Union Prisoner of War Song  ... By October of 1864, the number of Union prisoners inside Salisbury swelled to more than ... In 1865, when the number of prisoners ballooned to its peak, the death rate...
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South Carolina - Special Women in South Carolina History - SCIway  Mary McLeod Bethune - Born to former slaves just 10 years after the end of the Civil ... Under Franklin Roosevelt she served as Special Advisor on Minority Affairs, and in ... In 1928, she became the first woman elected to the South Carolina State Senate. .... After marrying, she and her husband searched for a winter home.
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Jesse and brother Frank James were Confederate guerrillas during ...  Frank James viewing Jesse's body after his brother was gunned down by "that .... Confederate guerrilla leader, Anderson led a band that targeted Union loyalists ..... On 9/7/1876, the James-Younger gang attemped to rob a bank in northfield, MN. ... After the war, he joined up with Frank and Jesse James, and formed the...
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Find A Grave - Great Locomotive Chase (Andrews Raiders)  Records 21 - 35 ... During the Civil War, he ran the fifty mile railroad freight line between ... On April 12, 1862, in the Great Locomotive Chase involving Union spy James Andrews' raid on the ... As engineer of the locomotive Texas, he ran down the stolen ... Locomotive Chase), on April 12, 1862 in northern Georgia during the...
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ourr.html - Oberlin College  A twelve year old boy suddenly gets a chance to become a conductor of the ... A DIFFERENT KIND OF CHRISTMAS ... is about a young boy whose abolitionist family helped fugitive slaves to freedom. ... Starting with the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793, this book covers Underground Railroad roots through many Ohio counties.
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Soldier-Women of the America Civil War  Jan 31, 2011 ... Mollie Bean was a North Carolina woman who, pretending to be a man, joined ... from North Carolina, who enlisted in the 47th North Carolina Infantry at some ... During the Civil War, thousands of slaves escaped from their farms and ..... Clalin' story as a woman who disguised herself as man to fight in the...
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Female Spies and Gender-Bending Soldiers Changed the Course of ...  Aug 27, 2015 ... Elizabeth Van Lew, another woman running a brilliant spy ring who also ... in the courtyard of Old Capitol Prison in D.C., where she was being ... The house where Belle Boyd and her family lived during the Union occupation of Martinsburg, Virginia. .... But she didn't limit her resources to prisoners of war.
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Blockade-Running in the Bahamas During the Civil War - Digital ...  T HE OPENING of the American Civil War in 1861 had the same electrifying effect on the ... to the Confederate coast to serve as a depot to receive Southern cotton and to supply Southern war needs. England tried to maintain ... of Nassau and those of the colonial capital at Williamsburg, Virginia, is probably due to the...
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Lafayette, James Armistead (1760-1832) | The Black Past ...  James Armistead [Lafayette] was an African American spy during the ... After gaining the consent of his owner, Armistead was stationed to serve ... Armistead returned to William Armistead after the war to continue his life as a slave, as ... It was at this time that Armistead made "Lafayette" his last name, in honor of the General.
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Harriet Tubman - Wikipedia  Harriet Tubman was an American abolitionist, humanitarian, and an armed scout and spy for the United States Army during the American Civil War. Born into slavery, Tubman escaped and subsequently made some thirteen ... She later helped abolitionist John Brown recruit men for his raid on Harpers Ferry, and in the...
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Encyclopdia Britannica's Guide to Women's History  ... in the North along the route of the Underground Railroadan elaborate secret ... her charges, Tubman became the railroad's most famous conductor and was ... Rewards offered by slaveholders for Tubman's capture eventually totaled $40,000. ... After the Civil War Tubman settled in Auburn and began taking in orphans...
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The Nation Goes to War - Exploring American Histories - Erenow  Though born into slavery in 1818, by 1860 Frederick Douglass had become a ... to New York in September 1838 with the help of Anna Murray, a free black servant. ... make emancipation a war aim and enlist African Americans in the Union army. ... into a recruiting poster, and he urged his own sons to join the Massachusetts...