One year after the first shots of the Civil War were fired at nearby Fort Sumter, the Planter’s three white officers went ...

COLUMBIA — A group studying where to put South Carolina's first Statehouse monument to an individual African American has decided Robert ... slave's work after the Civil War. The Smalls statue ...

This image from the Library of Congress Brady-Handy photograph collection shows a portrait of Robert Smalls created ... slave’s work after the Civil War. The Smalls statue would stand along ...

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 ...

Robert Donaldson was born Oct. 13, 1828, in Perry County, Ohio. He was the son of Thomas Donaldson and Nancy Saffer Donaldson. Both natives of Virginia, Thomas and Nancy immigrated to Ohio in 1823 ...

A group studying where to put South Carolina’s first Statehouse monument to an individual African American has decided Robert Smalls’ statue should ... of the former slave’s work after the Civil War.

Smalls helped the Union for the rest of the Civil War. After the South lost ... hug on the proposed site for a statue of Reconstruction hero Robert Smalls on Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2025, in Columbia, S.C.

David Lauderdale writes that a new chair and vice chair can restore trust and end a chapter of secrecy, ineptness, corruption and backroom power plays.