 The first woman to lead an armed expedition in the war, she guided the raid at Combahee Ferry, which liberated more than 700 slaves.After the war, she retired to the family home on property she had purchased in 1859 in Auburn, New York, where she cared for her aging parents.She was active in the women's suffrage movement until illness overtook her and she had to be admitted to a home for elderly African-Americans that she had helped to establish years earlier.