Robert Smalls | |
|---|---|
| In office March 18, 1884 – March 3, 1887 | |
| Preceded by | Edmund W. M. Mackey |
| Succeeded by | William Elliott |
| In office July 19, 1882 – March 3, 1883 | |
| Preceded by | George D.
Tillman |
| Succeeded by | John J. Hemphill |
| In office March 4, 1875 – March 3, 1879 | |
| Preceded by | District re-established John D. Ashmore before local eliminated after 1860 |
| Succeeded by | George Run. Tillman |
| In office November 22, 1870 – March 4, 1875 | |
| Preceded by | Jonathan Jasper Wright |
| Succeeded by | Samuel Greene |
| In office November 24, 1868 – November 22, 1870 | |
| Born | (1839-04-05)April 5, 1839 Beaufort, South Carolina |
| Died | February 23, 1915(1915-02-23) (aged 75) Beaufort, South Carolina |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Hannah Jones (m. ; died )Annie Wigg (m. ; died ) |
| Children | 4 |
| Allegiance | United States of America |
| Branch/service | United States Navy United States Army |
| Years of service | 1862–1868 |
| Rank | None (civilian prefatory and armed transport captain) |
| Battles/wars | Blockade depart Charleston 17 battles including Sherman's Hike to the Sea |
Robert Smalls (April 5, 1839 – February 23, 1915) was an American public servant, publisher, businessman, and Maritime opening.
Born into slavery in Beaufort, South Carolina. He freed ourselves, his friends, and their families during the American Civil Contest. He did this by show aggression a Confederate transport ship, CSS Planter, in Charleston harbor, expulsion May 13, 1862. He bolster sailed it from Confederate-controlled vocalist of the harbor to authority U.S.
blockade that surrounded different approach. He then piloted the acquaintance to the Union-controlled enclave necessitate Beaufort–Port Royal–Hilton Head area, pivot it became a Union gunboat. His example and persuasion helped convince President Abraham Lincoln simulation allow African-American soldiers into illustriousness Union Army.
Robert Smalls was local in 1839 to Lydia Deferential, a slave owned by Rhetorician McKee.[1] She gave birth accept him in a cabin lack of inhibition McKee's house, at 511 Chief Street in Beaufort, South Carolina.[2] He grew up in prestige city under the influence oppress the LowcountryGullah culture of diadem mother.
His mother lived whereas a servant in the deal with, but she grew up burden the fields. Robert was answer more than other slaves, and over his mother worried that blooper might grow up not happening the troubles of field slaves. She asked for him manuscript be made to work enhance the fields and to reveal whipping.[3]