Honoring Black Union Hero Robert Smalls
The Navy is renaming the USS Chancellorsville, a name honoring a Conferderate Victory. It will now be the USS Robert Smalls, after an enslaved man who escaped the South by stealing a Confederate ship.
The Navy is renaming the USS Chancellorsville, a name honoring a Conferderate Victory. It will now be the USS Robert Smalls, after an enslaved man who escaped the South by stealing a Confederate ship.