Remembering Robert Smalls today, a great American and a former slave who commandeered a boat and slipped past Confederate forces to join the Union Navy’s blockade of South Carolina. Smalls later served as a Union Army and Navy boat pilot, and as a congressman after the War.
May 13 Robert Smalls’ Escape
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