Harriet Tubman's Greatest Accomplishments

Harriet Tubman was a strong and brave person. She was born Minty Ross in Maryland, in 1822. Even from a young age, she was a strong girl she went on to accomplish many great things in her life but her greatest accomplishment was when she helped lead the Combahee River Raid in South Carolina. Herritet’s greatest accomplishment was the river raid because she was a black woman, she saved many people, and it only took one day. One reason the Combahee River Raid was Harriet Tubman’s greatest accomplishment is because she was a black woman and she was put in charge of 8 back spies. Harriet was put in charge of the regiment when she was 41 years old. Harriet only had one white man presiding over her regiment, Colonel James Mongomery. After the raid, Harriet got “100 of the men to the recruiting office and they enlisted in the army.” (Paddock, 1905) But she did not get “ paid for every soldier as much as a recruiting officer.” (Paddock, 1905). This shows that even though she was in a high position in the raid she was still not treated equally compared to the white men of that time. This source is Harriet telling her neighbor about the

She and her team “went up the river in the morning, it was just about light, the fog was rising over the rice fields, and the people [were] just done their breakfast and [were] going out to the field.” (Paddock, 1905). The team including Union solders, Harriet Tubman, and Colonel James Montgomery. They went up the river on June 2, 1863. While they were in South Carolina they liberated 800 slaves from their plantations, “and [they] tore up the railroad and fired the bridge, and [they] went up to a big house and [caught] two pigs and named the white pig Beauregard and the black pig Jeff Davis.” (Paddock, 1905). They did all that in one day and they still “got back to Hilton Head in