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Harriet Tubman, Undercover:
Slaves, runaway slaves, and free African Americans operating undercover provided valuable "black dispatches" -- intelligence -- to the Union. Harriet Tubman, famous Underground Railroad "conductor," bravely traveled back and forth between Confederate lines to spy. Assumed by Southerners to be a slave, so not a security risk, she moved freely gathering information, recruiting scouts, and identifying targets for the army. In 1862, with Colonel James Montgomery, she led a band of black soldiers on a nighttime raid along the Combahee River that rescued more than 750 slaves. |