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On this date 160 years ago, Harriet Tubman led a Union Army raid that rescued more than 700 slaves [1]
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Date: 2023-06-02
It was June 2, 1863, when the woman whose depiction ought to be by now be on the $20 bill, once again showed her incredible bravery in the face of America’s “peculiar institution”:
Harriet Tubman led 150 black Union soldiers, who were part of the U.S. 2nd South Carolina Volunteers, in the Combahee River Raid and liberated more than 700 enslaved people. Tubman, often referred to as “the Moses of her people,” was a former slave who had fled to freedom in 1849. Throughout the 1850s, she returned to her native Maryland to bring other enslaved people north into freedom, first to Pennsylvania and then eventually to Canada.
Tubman had worked mainly through the Underground Railroad in the 1850s. By 1862, however, she left her home in Auburn, New York to work in the Union-occupied Hilton Head area of South Carolina as a nurse and spy during the Civil War. In 1863, Colonel James Montgomery asked her to lead a secret military mission against Confederates in South Carolina. With the support of Union gunboats, she and members of the 2nd South Carolina Volunteers traveled into Confederate territory to free enslaved people and destroy wealthy rice plantations. Some of the formerly enslaved men were recruited into the army. [...]
Harriett Tubman was the only woman known to have led a military operation during the American Civil War. Thanks in great part to the intelligence she provided, the Union boats and over 700 slaves escaped unharmed , including 100 men who joined the Union Army. The Combahee River Raid was a major military and psychological blow to the Confederate cause.
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