How to Capture a Rebel Warship. / Jim Bampfield.
by Bampfield, Jim; SIRS Publishing, Inc.
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BookSeries: SIRS Enduring Issues 2002Article 3Global Issues. Publisher: Proceedings, 2001ISSN: 1522-3221;.Subject(s): Smalls, Robert, 1839-1915 | African American politicians | African Americans -- History | Warships | United States -- Armed Forces -- African Americans | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Participation -- African AmericanDDC classification: 050 Summary: "A slave working at a Charleston shipyard learned the ropes sufficiently to sneak a Confederate ship--the PLANTER--past Fort Sumter and into Union hands. His exploits thrust him into the national spotlight as a war hero, and eventually he represented South Carolina in the U.S. Congress." (PROCEEDINGS) This article profiles the career of freed slave Robert Smalls who fought in the Civil War and served as a United States Congressman.
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Originally Published: How to Capture a Rebel Warship, Feb. 2001; pp. 64-68.
"A slave working at a Charleston shipyard learned the ropes sufficiently to sneak a Confederate ship--the PLANTER--past Fort Sumter and into Union hands. His exploits thrust him into the national spotlight as a war hero, and eventually he represented South Carolina in the U.S. Congress." (PROCEEDINGS) This article profiles the career of freed slave Robert Smalls who fought in the Civil War and served as a United States Congressman.
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