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 an ...

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 ...

A clay rendering of the Robert Smalls monument. Basil Watson ... Congressman who commandeered a Confederate ship during the Civil War is slated to stand outside of the visitor’s entrance ...

This image from the Library of Congress Brady-Handy photograph collection shows a portrait of Robert Smalls created between 1870 and 1880. (Library of Congress via AP) ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A group studying where to put South Carolina’s first Statehouse monument to an individual African American has decided Robert ... work after the Civil War.