Raid on Combahee Ferry | |||||||
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Part of Raid on Combahee Ferry | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
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Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Harriet Tubman | |||||||
Units involved | |||||||
2nd South Carolina Volunteer Infantry Regiment (Colored)[1] |
The Raid on Combahee Ferry (/kəmˈbiː/ kəm-BEE,[2] also known as the Combahee River Raid) was a military operation during the American Civil War conducted on June 1 and June 2, 1863, by elements of the Union Army along the Combahee River in Beaufort and Colleton counties in the South Carolina Lowcountry.[3]
Harriet Tubman, who had escaped from slavery in 1849 and guided many others to freedom, led an expedition of 150 African American soldiers of the 2nd South Carolina Infantry.[4] The Union ships rescued and transported more than 750 former slaves freed five months earlier by the Emancipation Proclamation, many of whom joined the Union Army.
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