05-13-2016, 10:28 AM
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Location: Arlington, VA
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1862 – The USS Planter, a steamer and gunship, steals through Confederate lines and is passed to the Union, by a southern slave, Robert Smalls, who later was officially appointed as captain, becoming the first black man to command a United States ship.
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Cool story. I never heard this one.
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