Nicknamed "Fighting Joe" for his reputed exploits in the Battle of Williamsburg, Joseph Hooker was a career U.S. Army officer, rising to the rank of major general during the Civil War. Though he ...
Nov. 12 (UPI) --Harriet Tubman, a former slave and revered abolitionist who fought as a Union spy during the American Civil ...
(The Hill) — Harriet Tubman, the abolitionist who helped thousands escape the bonds of enslavement, has been posthumously awarded the rank of general ... During the Civil War, she served ...