After the Civil War ended in April 1865, Harriet Tubman suffered the only serious injury of the Civil War era when a railroad conductor in a Northern state treated her with disrespect and injured her on a train to New York. Back home in Auburn, New York, she recovered but faced financial hardship while caring for her aging parents and other elderly and indigent people she befriended and allowed to stay in her home. In 1868, she applied for a government pension for her Civil War service, but the application was rejected because she had never been officially mustered into or out of the Union Army. That same year, Sarah Bradford, a white woman, wrote Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman, and proceeds from its sales helped Tubman pay some of her debts. The book included testimonial letters from her friends, including a now almost legendary letter from her close friend Frederick Douglass. In 1869, Tubman married Civil War veteran Nelson Davis, whom she had met in the South in 1864, and after their marriage his pension helped support her through these difficult years.