Harriet Tubman Davis, widow of the late Nelson Davis of the US Colored Troops, who served in Company G of the 8th United States Colored Volunteer Infantry during the American Civil War, received a pension in 1890 (although the Union Army pensions on a whole have not yet digitized, Harriet Tubman’s pension has been digitized and made available in NARA’s online catalog). However, there are also a few rare instances of Black women getting pensions for their own service, such as Ann Bradford Stokes who served as a Union nurse on the naval vessel USS Red Rover (all approved Union Navy pensions HAVE been digitized and made available on www.Fold3.com. For Ann Stokes’ pension on Fold3, see Navy “Survivor’s Certificate No. 17834”). During the Civil War, Tubman served as a nurse, laundress and spy with the Union forces.