Description The mist in Charleston Inner Harbor was heavy, but not heavy enough to disguise the stolen Confederate steamship, the Planter, from Confederate soldiers.
Standing at the helm of the ship, Smalls impersonated the captain as he and his crew passed heavily armed Confederate forts to enter Union territory, whe.
Civil War, an enslaved man named Robert Smalls was about to carry out a perilous plan of escape.
In the early hours of May 13, 1862, in the midst of the deadly U.
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Description The mist in Charleston Inner Harbor was heavy, but not heavy enough to disguise the stolen Confederate steamship, the Planter, from Confederate soldiers