her abilities, Tubman served as an army scout and spy for Colonel James Montgomery. (14) Tubman distinguished herself as the first woman to lead an armed expedition in the Civil War, the Combahee River Raid, resulting in more than 700 enslaved persons in South Carolina being freed. (15) After the Civil War, Tubman frequently sheltered and fed freed slaves at her home in South Street even though she had little money herself. She found a means to an end by selling produce from her garden, taking in donations of food, loans from friends, and raising pigs in her backyard. (16) In her retirement, Tubman became active in the women’s suffrage movement, where she attended meetings and gave speeches in her home State of New York, as well as in Boston and Washington, DC. (17) Tubman was an avid advocate for African-American women and their rights. In 1896, she was invited as a speaker at the first meeting of the National Association of Colored Women. (18) Although living in financial insecurity, Tubman gave a parcel of her land to the African Methodist Episcopal Church, which eventually became a home for the aged and indigent colored people. At the time few social services existed for the elderly. (19) Escaping slavery