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.

The Maryland National Guard and Gov. Wes Moore officially recognized Harriet Tubman for her military service to both the U.S. and Maryland.

In addition to her work leading slaves to freedom via the Underground Railroad, Tubman headed reconnaissance parties and planned and executed a Union raid along the Combahee River in South Carolina.

Harriet Tubman was posthumously awarded the rank of brigadier general of the Maryland National Guard on Monday in recognition of her service.

My daughter, now in the fifth grade, has loved Harriet Tubman since the first grade, when she began reading books on her own. She loved reading about how Harriet returned multiple times to lead other slaves to freedom as well,

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.

Abolitionist Harriet Tubman was posthumously awarded the rank of brigadier general in the Maryland National Guard Monday, 161 years after she became the first woman to oversee an American military action during a time of war.

While many learned about Tubman's work freeing enslaved people, her sophisticated military service often goes untold in history classes.