Throughout the 1880s and 1890s, Harriet Tubman emerged as a supporter of the movement for women's suffrage. Speaking in support of the movement at the Rochester Convention in New York, Tubman was introduced by Susan B. Anthony.
-- James Chapnick
Becoming the first woman to do so in the Civil War, Harriet Tubman was credited with planning and guiding a significant armed raid by Colonel James Montgomery's 2nd South Carolina (African Descent) against Confederate forces, supply depots, and plantations along the Combahee River in coastal South Carolina. Union naval vessels brought back more than 800 slaves, many of whom enlisted in the Union Army. (By James Chapnick )
Harriet was seen as a potentially useful asset to the Union Army in dealing with freed southern slaves, or "contrabands." For most of her time in South Carolina, Tubman worked as a nurse and supported herself by cooking, sewing, and providing other services to the soldiers.
-- James Chapnick