MARYLAND (DC News Now) — This Veterans Day, the Maryland National Guard and Gov. Wes Moore will posthumously commission Harriet Tubman as a one-star general in the Maryland Army National Guard.

Tubman, originally named Araminta, was born in 1822 in Dorchester County on the Eastern Shore. She changed her name to Harriet upon marrying free man John Tubman in 1844. Later, when her enslaver died and she was set to be sold, she escaped.

She spent the next several years making trips to Maryland to rescue her friends and family, who were still enslaved. According to the National Park Service, it is estimated that she also instructed around 70 others, helping them escape to freedom.

According to the Maryland National Guard, during the Civil War, she was the first Black woman to serve the U.S. military in combat, working as a spy, scout, nurse and cook for the Union Army.

Tubman provided intelligence to the Union Army about the movement, locations, ammunition depots and supply lines of Confederate troops during scouting and spying missions. She was also the first woman to lead an armed military assault that freed over 750 enslaved people and destroyed a Confederate agricultural area, according to a Maryland National Guard press release.

The Maryland National Guard said that Tubman received a Civil War pension after the war for her role as a “nurse, spy and cook.” However, according to the National Park Service, Congress only recognized her role as a nurse and not her status within the military.

Tubman’s designation as a brigadier general comes after the General Assembly passed legislation during the last session allowing the governor to award a commission, appointment or promotion to an awardee after their death.

Gov. Moore, Maj. Gen Janeen L. Birckhead, Maryland House Speaker Adrienne Jones and Del. Edith J. Patterson (Charles County) will honor Tubman with the ceremony at the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad State Park and Visitor Center in Church Creek.

The event will begin at 9:45 a.m. and feature ceremonial music and a flyover from the Maryland Army National Guard. Tubman’s descendants are also scheduled to take part in the commissioning ceremony.