During the Civil War Harriet Tubman worked for the Union as a cook, a nurse, and even a spy. After the war she settled in Auburn, New York, where she would spend the rest of her long life.

Rita Daniels is the great, great, great grand niece of Harriet Tubman and she joins TODAY to discuss her new book “Harriet ...

Harriet Tubman, a revered abolitionist and the first ... she later received a Civil War pension for her service as a nurse and cook, caring for both soldiers and newly freed African Americans.