JAMES MONTGOMERY, Col. Com. Brigade.
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_Letter from Mrs. Gen. A. Baird_.
PETERBORO, _Nov_. 24, 1864.
The bearer of this, Harriet Tubman, a most excellent woman, who
has rendered faithful and good services to our Union army, not
only in the hospital, but in various capacities, having been
employed under Government at Hilton Head, and in Florida; and I
commend her to the protection of all officers in whose department
she may happen to be.
She has been known and esteemed for years by the family of my
uncle, Hon. Gerrit Smith, as a person of great rectitude and
capabilities.