Harriet Tubman led military raids during the Civil War as well as her better-known slave rescues
Gen. Rufus Saxton wrote that he bore “witness to the value of her services… She was employed in the Hospitals and as a spy [and] made many a raid inside the enemy’s lines displaying remarkable courage ...
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The Civil War and emancipation
The Civil War had begun. Immediately following the attack ... Finally, on August 6, 1861, fugitive slaves were declared to be "contraband of war" if their labor had been used to aid the ...
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“All in Ironton are Black Except…”—A Civil War Confederate Spy Map
A Civil War map in the National Archives in College Park, Maryland reads, “S. E. Missouri, Country Around Ironton” on its ...
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Why's it called that? Military Road takes name from former academy
Military Road in Worcester, off Salisbury Street, not far from Park Avenue, takes its name from the school created by ...
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Remembering Jefferson County’s forgotten heroes for our freedom
As you march today as an expression of freedom, think back to the American Civil War 1861-1865. Conventional wisdom would ...