onductor Harriet managed to save 300 people, making 19 trips altogether. She never lost a passenger on the way. Her career in the Railroad ended around December 1860, and for her safety her friends took her to Canada. Tubman returned to the U.S. from living in Canada in 1861. The Civil war had begun and was enlisting all men as soldiers and any women who wanted to join as cooks and nurses. Tubman enlisted into the Union army as a contraband nurse in a hospital in Hilton Head, South Carolina. She treated her patients with medicine from roots and miraculously never caught any of the deadly diseases the wounded soldiers would carry. Not only did she nurse the sick and wounded back to health, but she also tried to find them work. In the Civil War she was also helped to prepare food for the 54th Massachusetts Regiment (Composed entirely of black soldiers and known as the Glory Brigade), and was also a scout. She put together a group of spies who kept Colonel James Montgomery informed about slaves who might want to join the Union army. After the war, Harriet returned home to Auburn, NY where she once stayed with her parents. In 1869 she married Nelson Davis and together they shared a calm, peaceful 19-year marriage until he died. She donated a piece of property to the Methodist Episcopal Zion Church in 1908 in hopes of a home for elderly and poor black people to be constructed on that land. It eventually was and she lived there, telling her stories to visitors until she died on March 10, 1913. Harriet was never the only slave with rebellion on her mind. She had grown up hearing whispered stories of slave revolts. Back in the days of her grandmother, white refugees had ran to Baltimore, fleeing from a bloody slave uprising in Haiti where a black republic was successfully established. In the United States, Gabriel Prosser had planned a night attack on Richmond, Virginia with a group of more than a thousand blacks, but he failed...
