Harriet Tubman's Role In The Civil War

Women during the Antebellum Period we held to high expectations of how they were to behave. They had virtues that they adhered to. After the war broke out, the lives of women changed, and the roles they played significantly impacted the way women were viewed following the war. The Civil War was the result of decades worth of tensions amongst the northern and southern states that had ultimately ended with a war. The states had been feuding over many issues including expansion, slavery, and state’s rights (History.com Staff “American Civil War History”). The Civil war broke out in 1861 and continued until 1865. Prior to the war women stayed home and kept up things at the house, but after the war broke out, women felt they needed to help the

Harriet Tubman is well known for a successful role in freeing many slaves through the Underground Railroad. Not many know the major effect she had on the Union Army as a Scout and a spy during the Civil War. Her bravery while helping slaves escape through the Underground Railroad and her assistance in gathering Confederate troops intelligence as a spy changed the history and made a great impact on the on the United States National Defense. Even though Harriet Tubman was a very skillful spy, she had many indicators that were missed while she was spied for intelligence and reported the material which were compromised to her handler.

Harriet Tubman was an important African American who ran away from slavery and guided runaway slaves to the north for years. During the Civil War she served as a scout, spy, and nurse for the United States Army. After that, she worked for the rights of blacks and women.

Harriet Tubman’s success in freeing hundreds of slaves through the Underground Railroad is recognized throughout the world. As an escaped slave herself, she still traveled to the southern states many times to free other slaves. A normal fugitive slave would not put themselves in danger and risk imprisonment, but Harriet Tubman did. Although Harriet Tubman is very popular and every school teaches her life story, not many realize that she had a spy ring and had enormous influence on the Union during the Civil War. Her bravery while helping slaves escape through the Underground Railroad and her assistance in gathering intelligence from Confederate troops as a spy changed the history and made a great impact on the on the United States national

Women in the Civil War were important because they played important roles. They played as nurses, spies, and some even disguised themselves as soldiers. The women could only play one of these roles. For example they can only be either a spy or nurse or a soldier. They can’t be two like a spy and a nurse.

Harriet Tubman was an African American bondwomen who escaped slavery in the south. Harriet Tubman became famous as a “conductor” on the Underground Railroad during the turbulent 1850s. Tubman was born a slave, she worked in the field ever since she was old enough to walk. She also endured brutal beatings. She couldn’t deal with the horrible life style she lived any longer. Tubman decided that it was time for a change. Though she was a slave, she was smart enough to come up with a master plan to get away from it all and take her people with her. In 1849 she fled slavery, leaving her husband and family behind in order to escape. Despite a bounty on her head, she returned to the South at least 19 times to lead her family and hundreds of other slaves to freedom using the Underground Railroad. Slaves suffered and weren’t treated fairly. Every slave wanted to be free and many attempted to escape but Harriet was the only one who didn’t get captured. “She was one of very few women whose escape from slavery was widely publicized in her own time among antislavery activists, and was virtually the only women celebrated as a guide for fleeing fugitives.” (Humez 5) Harriet’s bravery is what freed many slaves and also gave many slaves hope that they would see better days. She led her people to a new world where slavery was abolished. Harriet Tubman’s accomplishments and bravery as a leader on the Underground

She became the only woman, at the time, to officially lead men into battle, as a scout and a spy while serving the union army in South Carolina. Even though she had already done many incredible things she still chose to do more remarkable

Ms. Tubman is more known as the woman to help free many enslaved African Americans, but in reality that is not all she accomplished in her life. Harriet Tubman was actually a very big key to the Union; she created a big network of spies. This network was formed by many African Americans who volunteered to be slaves to help the Union. This network helped create a better Union army, now that they were able to “gather Military intelligence” (History.com Staff). Another thing Harriet Tubman is less known for is leading armed men to cut off the Confederacy’s supply line; in addition she also freed over 700 slaves. After the war was over, Ms. Tubman was compensated $200, although this was very little money she continued to sell pies, gingerbread, etc. to make a living. Harriet Tubman was offered more money for her service of being a spy, but she initially rejected the

The role of women during the Civil War is one that is often misinterpreted and misunderstood. Traditionally, women were expected to either keep their homes while their husbands were away. If anything, they were able to work as nurses. However, many women would defy these standards. Defying stereotypes, these women would take on jobs that no one had dared take on before. Women were expected to be proper and maintain the house while men were gone. The women of the Civil War would challenge these stereotypes in a large way, defying everything that was seen as “the norm”. Although women were not legally allowed to participate in combat during the Civil War, they still made significant contributions on and off the battlefield, and without these contributions the war would have been very different.

As said by Phylicia Rashas, “Any time women come together with a collective intention, it's a powerful thing. Whether it's sitting down making a quilt, in a kitchen preparing a meal...or planning a birthday party, when women come together with a collective intention, magic happens.” This is exactly what happened during the Civil War. Before the war, women were simply expected to do work around the house. Their jobs included cooking, cleaning, and caring for children. This was called the “Cult of True Womanhood” and women whose lifestyles followed this path were considered “True Women”. However, women had to take on much more difficult tasks as the Civil War approached. Women played a vital role during the Civil War

The Civil War, despite its grim brutality, was beneficial for many women within the United States. Due to

Slavery has always been an anomaly, although abolitionists such as Harriet Tubman did much to ameliorate, and later, abolish slavery. Harriet was a strong and courageous woman and a well-known conductor of the Underground Railroads, around the 1850s. Harriet Tubman personal experiences throughout her life have shaped her to become the stout-hearted woman who helped many slaves escape to freedom, by using the Underground Railroad—a network of secret routes.

Throughout the entire book the author talks about the different challenges the many women of the Civil War overcame even though they did not have to face these challenges in the first. At the end of the book the author even states, “Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr… summed up the Civil War experience of his generation with these words: ‘In our youth our hearts were touched with fire.’ When we think about the bravery of those who fought in the Civil War, we can now honor the passionate women whose hearts were also touched with fire and who went to extraordinary lengths to serve as soldiers” (93). With this very firm statement, it becomes clear that if you look into the core of all the things that women soldiers of the Civil War did, they all were fueled with the same driving force as any of their fellow male comrades. This message is very clear because the book includes many chapters such as, “Reasons for Becoming a Soldier,” “A Soldier’s Life,” “Women at Antietam,” and “Hospitals and Prisons.” All of these chapters (and others) contain information about women soldiers’ perseverance and the differences of men to women soldiers which, unsurprisingly, is not a lot other than

In the mid-late 19th century, a woman was not permitted to vote or hold official offices because they were considered as weak, timid, domestic, illogical, dependent, and hysteria (lectures). During the Civil War (1861-1865), women across the South became nurses, spies, soldiers to support their families and the Confederacy. Mostly, they were engaged in supplying the troops with food, clothing, medical supplies, and even money through fundraising. Moreover, thousands of black enslaved women escaped and began the transition of freedom, beginning

During the Civil War, American women want to find a way to contribute to the war. Women in the North and South joined as volunteers and signed up to work as nurses. It was the first time in American history that women were allowed to