On the moonlit night of June 2, 1863, Harriet Tubman and 300 Union soldiers, many of them Black, departed Beaufort, South Carolina, on three gunboats. They sailed in stealth up the Coosaw River ...

Fun fact: Harriet Tubman's military service. In 2024, the Maryland National Guard recognized Tubman as a one-star brigadier general to honor her contributions to the Union Army.