One year after the first shots of the Civil War were fired at nearby Fort Sumter, the Planter’s three white officers went ...
A state panel has decided where a monument memorializing Civil War hero Robert Smalls will stand on the South Carolina State House grounds and what it will look like. The monument will be located in ...
A man named Robert Smalls is staging a daring escape from slavery. Smalls had been forced to work as pilot on a prized confederate navy ship called the CSS Plater. That night, all of the white ...
Robert Smalls was born into slavery in Beaufort ... posing as a confederate soldier to commandeer the Confederate ship CSS ...
COLUMBIA — South Carolina lawmakers have chosen an artist and design for a Statehouse monument to Civil War legend Robert Smalls after ... wheeler steamship the Planter in Charleston Harbor ...
The Robert Smalls statue will ... have a panel with a biography, including Smalls being born into slavery, how he commandeered the Confederate Ship Planter in 1862 to bring 15 other runaway ...
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCBD) — A state panel has decided where a monument memorializing Civil War hero Robert ... Smalls was born a slave in Beaufort but was sent to Charleston to work on the CSS ...