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jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
me, I would have gone for “Fort Harriet Tubman“
Today in History, 1863: The Raid on Combahee Ferry
“Tubman later said that the only flaw was her choice of clothing in that her green dress had been damaged and torn by excited freedmen boarding the ships. A few weeks later, the 2nd South Carolina and the 54th Massachusetts raided up the river to Darien, Georgia…
The Combahee Ferry raid proved the value of black troops in combat.”