ROBERT SMALLS CEMETERY MEMORIAL MARKER
BORN A SLAVE IN 1839, ROBERT SMALLS LIVED TO SERVE AS A CONGRESMAN OF THE UNITED STATES. IN 1862 HE COMMANDEERED AND DELIVERED TO UNION FORCES THE CONFEDERATE GUNBOAT PLANTER, ON WHICH HE WAS A CREWMAN. HE DIED IN 1915 AND IS BURIED HERE.
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- Cemetery
- CIVIL WAR
- War Memorial Historical Wayside Markers
- 911 CRAVEN STREET
- 29902
- MIKE STROUD
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