Harriet Tubman's Role In The Civil War
Harriet Tubman: Civil War * Harriet Tubman was a cook, a nurse, a spy, scout, and a soldier for the Union in the Civil war.
* She got involved in the Civil War because she wanted freedom for all slaves, and was already involved in their escape and their enlisting in the resistance.
* Mary people joined her cause to spy for the union because they believed in what she was doing even at the risk of being killed / hanged.
The Military Raid * Harriet Tubman was also the first woman in America to ever lead a military raid.
* She aided Colonel Montgomery plan and lead a raid to liberate slaves from the plantation that they were working on in South Carolina around the Combahee River.
* They ended up freeing about 750 slaves, woman men children and babies …show more content…
School Teacher and Nurse * She taught school and was a nurse at Beaufort, South Carolina to the people there called the Gullah people of the Sea of Islands, who had escaped capture when the Union progressed.
* Many sick people that she was helping were diseased with dysentery, a disease in which a symptom is awful diarrhea.
* She said that she could heal all the people with this disease in the hospital if she had the right herbs that she needed.
* So, knowing this, she went searching for these plants and roots to heal the people and she found water lilies, and geranium.
* She then went back to hospital and boiled these together and in a nasty and bitter concoction and gave to a dying old man and he slowly healed.
* She ended up healing many of the people with this disease, and many others in her many lines of work.
Spying and Scouting * Harriet Tubman was then asked to gather a group of spies and scouts for the Union with the black men of the area.
* She also led spontaneous raids to gather information by
* She got involved in the Civil War because she wanted freedom for all slaves, and was already involved in their escape and their enlisting in the resistance.
* Mary people joined her cause to spy for the union because they believed in what she was doing even at the risk of being killed / hanged.
The Military Raid * Harriet Tubman was also the first woman in America to ever lead a military raid.
* She aided Colonel Montgomery plan and lead a raid to liberate slaves from the plantation that they were working on in South Carolina around the Combahee River.
* They ended up freeing about 750 slaves, woman men children and babies …show more content…
School Teacher and Nurse * She taught school and was a nurse at Beaufort, South Carolina to the people there called the Gullah people of the Sea of Islands, who had escaped capture when the Union progressed.
* Many sick people that she was helping were diseased with dysentery, a disease in which a symptom is awful diarrhea.
* She said that she could heal all the people with this disease in the hospital if she had the right herbs that she needed.
* So, knowing this, she went searching for these plants and roots to heal the people and she found water lilies, and geranium.
* She then went back to hospital and boiled these together and in a nasty and bitter concoction and gave to a dying old man and he slowly healed.
* She ended up healing many of the people with this disease, and many others in her many lines of work.
Spying and Scouting * Harriet Tubman was then asked to gather a group of spies and scouts for the Union with the black men of the area.
* She also led spontaneous raids to gather information by