Early Life and Enslavement: Robert Smalls was born in 1839 in Beaufort, South Carolina, into slavery. His mother, who was ...

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About 150 years ago, a few days after summer solstice, the gray skies above the Diomede Islands were heavy with smoke from whaling ships set ablaze by Confederate sailors who didn’t know the ...

About 150 years ago, a few days after summer solstice, the skies above the Diomede Islands were heavy with smoke from whaling ships set ablaze by Confederate sailors who didn’t know the Civil ...

A highly literate man and a forceful memoirist, Semmes wrote up his adventures at sea before and during the Civil War. Semmes had served in the Second Seminole War. In the war with Mexico, he ...

The statue commemorates Colonel Robert A Smith, a Scot who was struck down in Kentucky during the US civil war.

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He escaped slavery on a captured Confederate ship and joined the Union Navy. He later had a long career in politics after the war. Hodge spoke in the first person as Capt. Smalls and was available ...

It didn’t go too well; the ship was lost in a storm, but Semmes wrote up his adventures in “Service Afloat and Ashore During the Mexican War,” 1851. Semmes would, after the Civil War ended ...