A monument honoring a former Black Congressman who commandeered a Confederate ship during the Civil War is slated to stand outside of the visitor’s entrance of the State House. The Robert Smalls ...
A group studying where to put South Carolina's first Statehouse ... READ MORE | "Charleston leaders to honor Civil War hero Robert Smalls." In May 1862, during the Civil War, the steel-nerved ...
COLUMBIA — South Carolina lawmakers have chosen an artist and design for a Statehouse monument to Civil War legend Robert Smalls after ... steamship the Planter in Charleston Harbor and sailed ...
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCBD) — A state panel has decided where a monument memorializing Civil War hero Robert Smalls will stand on the South Carolina ... but was sent to Charleston to work on the ...
A clay rendering of the Robert Smalls monument ... Another panel will have the quote from Smalls from the 1895 South Carolina Constitutional convention, “My race needs no special defense ...
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — 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 ...