As clouds flitted across the moonlit sky on the night of June 2, 1863, three gunboats snaked up the Combahee River in South Carolina’s Lowcountry region. The Civil War was raging and the vessels ...

While walking along the shoreline of the river on Saturday, relic collector Riley Bryant found Civil War-era bullets and a union U.S. cartridge box plate, according to an interview he gave ABC News.

She has written a book about the Combahee River Raid titled “Harriett Tubman, The Combahee River Raid and the Black Freedom During The Civil War ... they drove three gunboats up the ...