06/01/2026
Landfall: Come by the Combee tour available in the NPS app.
756 people liberated in a single night.
756 people liberated in a single night.
On the night of June 1st, 1863, Harriet Tubman and the 2nd South Carolina Volunteers made history. They boarded three boats at the waterfront in Beaufort and returned to the same spot early the next morning with over 750 liberated men, women, and children. Over the last year Reconstruction Era National Historical Park worked with James Height, a Morehouse College Alumni and HBCU intern to create a self-guided audio tour about the Combahee River Raid. James interviewed several descendants of those liberated in the raid to learn about their family’s history. Today you can take the tour, “Landfall: Come by the Combee” in the NPS app to journey to places of liberation along the Combahee River.
Learn more about the Combahee River Raid on our website: https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/we-called-ourselves-combee.htm.
The NPS app is available to iOS and Android find out more on: go.nps.gov/app
IMAGE: NPS
