Harriet Tubman and the Combahee River Raid

Posted June 2nd, 2013 by James DeWolf Perry
Category: History Tags: Black agency, Combahee River Raid, Emancipation, Harriet Tubman, Sesquicentennial of the U.S. Civil War, South Carolina, U.S. Civil War

One hundred and fifty years ago today, Union forces led by Harriet Tubman and Colonel James Montgomery engaged in a daring and wildly successful raid up the Combahee River in South Carolina.

The Combahee River Raid crippled local Confederate infrastructure, liberated 756 enslaved blacks, and earned Tubman well-deserved accolades as the first woman in U.S. history to plan and lead a military raid.

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