April 14, 2013--Beaufort, SC

Today we hope to drive 479 miles to Beaufort, SC, a unique deep-South town that Union troops occupied and held during the entire course of the Civil War. In this they were helped significantly by Harriet Tubman.

When the war began, born onto slavery, she worked for the Union Army, first as a cook and nurse, and later as an armed scout and spy. The first woman to lead an armed expedition in the war, she guided the Combahee River Raid, which liberated more than 700 slaves from plantations near Beaufort.