Robert Smalls, memorialized in a bust at Beaufort ... After serving the Union cause as a pilot for the rest of the Civil War, he returned to South Carolina, opened a general store that catered ...

Robert Smalls was born in 1839 in Beaufort ... In May 1862, during the Civil War, the steel-nerved ship pilot waited for the ship’s white Confederate crew members to leave the vessel for ...

Since the beginning of the Civil War, Lincoln had rejected Black volunteers ... to political office at all levels—including Robert Smalls: The former slave who had secured his own freedom ...

A group studying where to put South Carolina's first Statehouse monument to an individual African American has decided Robert Smalls' statue should be staring down a notorious white supremacist ...

The ship’s pilot helped his family reach freedom, then served in the Civil War and in the U.S. Congress. Robert Smalls’s statue will be the first to honor an individual Black citizen on South ...

It was the rare moment Robert Smalls, a fiercely intelligent 22-year-old slave ... the short period after the Civil War known as Reconstruction. During this approximately 12-year stretch, which began ...

In the darkness before dawn on May 13, 1862, Robert Smalls, an enslaved man in South Carolina ... “Most of the chief historians in the past have been military historians, Civil War historians,” she ...

In recognition of Robert Smalls Day in South Carolina, the Oconee County Republican Party has announced the formation of a ...