Renowned as a Black liberator, Harriet Tubman was also a brilliant spy
While working as a spy for the Union Army, Tubman had slipped behind Confederate lines, gathering intelligence from enslaved Black people to obtain the coordinates of torpedoes planted along the river by Confederates.
That night, with Tubman leading the expedition, the Union gunboats quietly maneuvered, deftly avoiding each torpedo. The boats — the John Adams and the Harriet A. Weed — held Black soldiers as they moved up the Combahee, overrunning Confederate sentinels in a devastating raid. As the gunboats set anchor, Confederate guards fled. Union soldiers burned bridges, tore up railroads, set blaze to Confederate mansions and rice plantations.
The article is a little long, but it reveals yet another remarkable Black person.
Very interesting!
ReplyDeleteAnother trail blazer!!! I watched a PBS program on Paul Revere Williams a renowned black architect in Los Angeles. This was back in the 1920's and later. He was an architect to the stars, he designed homes for Frank Sinatra and more. The Beverly Hills Hotel, he was a part of it and the large name on the side, that was his!
ReplyDeleteLuv chocolate - Never heard of him; but glad he's getting recognition.
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