Who led a raid at Harper’s Ferry in 1859?
John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry (also known as John Brown's raid or The raid on Harpers Ferry) was an effort by abolitionist John Brown to initiate an armed slave revolt in 1859 by taking over a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. Brown's party of 22 was defeated by a company of U.S. Marines, led by First Lieutenant Israel Greene. Colonel Robert E. Lee was in overall command of the operation to retake the arsenal. John Brown had originally asked Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass, both of whom he had met in
Raid on Combahee Ferry Raid on Combahee Ferry The raid on Combahee Ferry 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. Harriet Tubman, who had escaped from slavery in 1849 and guided many others to freedom, was working for the Union Army. The Union ships transported more than 750 slaves freed by the raid, many of whom joined the Union Army. Following the first shots of the Civil War at Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor,