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Harriet Tubman posthumously named a general in Veterans Day ceremony
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Harriet Tubman, who was the first woman to oversee an American military action during a time of war, was posthumously awarded the rank of general.
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This Veterans Day, the Maryland National Guard and Governor Wes Moore posthumously commissioned Harriet Tubman as a one-star general in the Maryland Army National Guard.
Tubman, who escaped slavery in 1849, was a scout, spy and nurse for the Union Army during the Civil War, helping guide 150 Black soldiers on a gunboat raid in South Carolina
CHURCH CREEK, Md. (AP) — Revered abolitionist Harriet Tubman, who was the first woman to oversee an American military action during a time of war, was posthumously awarded the rank of general on Monday.
Abolitionist Harriet Tubman was officially made a one-star brigadier general in the Maryland National Guard on Veterans Day at a ceremony attended by Democratic Gov. Wes Moore.
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