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The Planter,
c. 1862
(Naval Historical Center)
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A
side-wheeler, 140-feet-long, the Confederate steamer the Planter carried
seven heavy guns and an eight-inch rifled cannon.
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After Robert
Small succeeded in commandeering the vessel and delivering it to the Union
forces, The New York Herald wrote: “One of the most daring and heroic
adventures since the war commenced was undertaken and successfully accomplished
by a party of Negroes in Charlestown on Monday night last.”
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