Stripping Confederate Ties, the U.S. Navy Renames Two Vessels
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One night in 1862, as the Civil War raged, an enslaved mariner named Robert Smalls seized an opportunity. When the enlisted crew of a Confederate steamer disembarked for a night of carousing in Charleston, S.C., Mr.
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