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Harriet Tubman 1820 - March 10, 1913 Also Known As: Araminta Green or Araminta Ross (birth name), Harriet Ross Tubman, Moses. A fugitive slave, Underground Railroad conductor, abolitionist, spy, soldier, Civil War, African American, nurse. Known for work with Underground Railroad, Civil War service, and later, and her advocacy of woman suffrage. Most famously she led the Combahee River expedition.
Organizations/Religion: New England Anti-Slavery Society, General Vigilance Committee, Underground Railroad, National Federation of Afro-American Women, National Association of Colored Women, New England Women's Suffrage Association, African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME Church)
Combahee River expedition The Combahee strategy was formulated by Harriet Tubman as an outcome of her penetrations of the enemy lines and her belief that the Combahee River countryside was ripe for a successful invasion. She was asked by General Hunter “if she would go with several gunboats up the Combahee River, the object of the expedition being to take up the torpedoes placed by the rebels in the river, to destroy railroads and bridges, and to cut off supplies from the rebel troops. She said she would go if Col. Montgomery was to be appointed commander of the expedition…Accordingly, Col. Montgomery was appointed to the command, and Harriet, with several men under her, the principal of whom was J. Plowden…accompanied the expedition”. 4 Actually in this raid it was Montgomery who was the auxiliary leader. The whole venture owed its success to the complete preliminary survey made by Harriet Tubman’s espionage troops.
June 2, 1863, Harriet and Colonel Montgomery, with a party of about 150 Negro troops in three gunboats, started up the Combahee River
http://www.harriettubman.com/tubman2.html
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