The first woman to lead an armed expedition in the war, she guided the raid at Combahee Ferry, which liberated more than seven hundred slaves.
It ended Confederate control of the Combahee River, destroyed large amounts of Confederate property,
and gave the Union hundreds more soldiers(from many of the freed slaves volunteering for the army), as well as many thousands of dollars of food and supplies acquired from the enemy- a material and psychological blow to the Confederacy.