Harriet Tubman has been posthumously recognized as a one-star brigadier general in Maryland’s National Guard. At a ceremony on Veterans Day, officials in the abolitionist’s home state honored her military service during the Civil War.

This Veterans Day, the Maryland National Guard and Governor Wes Moore posthumously commissioned Harriet Tubman as a one-star general in the Maryland Army National Guard.

Harriet Tubman, the abolitionist who helped thousands escape the bonds of enslavement, has been posthumously awarded the rank of general. In a ceremony at the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad State Park in the abolitionist’s home of Dorchester,