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Raid at Combahee Ferry

The Raid at Combahee Ferry was a military operation during the American Civil War; it was conducted on June 1 and June 2, 1863, by elements of the Union Army along the Combahee River in Beaufort and Colleton counties in southeast South Carolina.

Planters and overseers fled area plantations ahead of the oncoming Union troops, and thousands of slaves were effectively liberated.



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