Former slave Harriet Tubman was given a military funeral upon her death in 1913 for her service as a nurse during the Civil War. Already well known for her work to help slaves escape via the Underground Railroad, Massachusetts Governor John A. Andrew asked Tubman to help nurse in the military camps early in the war. Late in her life she was awarded a military pension.
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