One year after the first shots of the Civil War were fired at nearby Fort Sumter, the Planter’s three white officers went ...

READ MORE | "Charleston leaders to honor Civil War hero Robert Smalls." In May 1862, during the Civil War, the steel-nerved ship pilot waited for the ship's white Confederate crew members to leave ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A group studying where to put South Carolina’s first Statehouse monument to an individual African American has decided Robert Smalls ... to sail his family and a dozen ...

South Carolina Statue Honoring Black Hero Robert Smalls Will ... Born into bondage, Smalls stole a Confederate ship during the Civil War to sail his family and a dozen others to freedom.