Robert Smalls
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FILE - This May 2, 2012 file photo shows a display at the Charleston Museum in Charleston, S.C., of an 1862 Harpers Weekly article about Robert Smalls and the CSS Planter. Researchers announced on Tuesday, May 13, 2014 that they believe they have found the wreck of the Planter on the South Carolina coast. Smalls commandeered the Confederate vessel in 1862 and turned it over to the Union navy. (AP Photo/Bruce Smith, file)
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FILE- This May 2, 2012, photo, shows a model of the CSS Planter at the Charleston Museum in Charleston, S.C., as an exhibit entitled "The Life and Times of Congressman Robert Smalls." On Tuesday, May 13, 2014 researchers announced they think they have found the wreck of the Planter on the South Carolina coast. The vessel was a Confederate ship that the slave Robert Smalls commandeered in May of 1862 and turned over to the Union navy. (AP Photo/Bruce Smith, file)
