Harriet Tubman Lithograph

Supporting the 54th

Item contributed by Tennessee Virtual Archive

During the Civil War, Harriet Tubman served as a nurse, cook, and scout. She notably led a successful military campaign, the Combahee Ferry Raid, which freed hundreds of enslaved people. Tubman saw the 54^th in the days prior to the Battle of Fort Wagner, claiming that she served Colonel Shaw his final meal. She tended to many of the regiment’s wounded in the days following the fateful assault.