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by Cate Lineberry


  37.  “Reports of Generals Steedman and Fullerton on the condition of the Freedmen’s Bureau in the southern states.” June 1, 1866, North Carolina Collection Vault, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Wise interviews.

  38.  “Sale of the Steamer Fannie,” New York Herald, July 13, 1865.

  39.  “Steadman [sic] and Fullerton Tour,” New York Tribune, June 7, 1866; “The Bureau,” New York Herald, June 2, 1866.

  40.  Ibid.

  41.  Clipping attached to letter to Maj. Gen. Meigs, July 31, 1866, Planter File, Entry 1403, Record Group 92, NARA.

  42.  House Committee on Naval Affairs, Authorizing the President to Place Robert Smalls on the Retired List of the Navy, 47th Cong., 2nd sess., 1883, H. Rep. 1887; “The Famous Steamer Planter,” San Francisco (CA) Bulletin, September 24, 1866.

  43.  “Capt. Robert Small, of the United States Transport Planter,” Christian Recorder, September 29, 1866.

  44.  “Auction Sales,” Daily National Republican, September 25, 1866; “Miscellaneous,” World (New York, NY), October 2, 1866; “The Planter,” Charleston Daily News, February 18, 1867; “Moses Cohen Mordecai,” Findagrave, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=118287514, accessed October 12, 2016; Thomas J. Tobias, The Hebrew Benevolent Society of Charleston, S.C. (Charleston, SC: Hebrew Benevolent Society, 1965.), 7; Jonathan D. Sarna and Adam Mendelsohn, eds., Jews and the Civil War: A Reader (New York: New York University Press, 2010), 29.

  Epilogue

    1.  Stephen R. Wise and Lawrence S. Rowland with Gerhard Spieler, Rebellion, Reconstruction, and Redemption, 1861–1893, vol. 2 of The History of Beaufort County, South Carolina (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2015), 483–84.

    2.  “Freedman’s Cheapstore,” Christian Recorder, March 2, 1867.

    3.  Dr. Lawrence Rowland interviews; Wise and Rowland, Rebellion, Reconstruction, and Redemption, 485; N. Louise Bailey, Mary L. Morgan, and Carolyn R. Taylor, Biographical Dictionary of the South Carolina Senate, 1776–1985 (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1986), 1483.

    4.  Dr. Helen Boulware Moore interviews.

    5.  “Personal,” People’s Advocate (Washington, D.C.), August 4, 1883; “Marriage of Gen. Robert Smalls,” New York Times, April 9, 1890; “Smalls,” News and Courier, Charleston, SC, November 7, 1895.

    6.  Okon Edet Uya, From Slavery to Public Service: Robert Smalls (New York: Oxford University Press, 1971), 161.

    7.  Wise and Rowland, Rebellion, Reconstruction, and Redemption, 489.

    8.  “Southern Items,” Christian Recorder, February 16, 1867.

    9.  “Worthy of Attention,” Christian Recorder, March 9, 1867; “Southern Items”; Edward A. Miller, Jr., Gullah Statesman: Robert Smalls from Slavery to Congress, 1839–1915 (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1995), 44.

  10.  Robert Smalls to Governor Daniel Chamberlain, August 24, 1876, papers of Governor Daniel Chamberlain, S518024, box 14, South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia.

  11.  Miller, Gullah Statesman, 45.

  12.  Wise and Rowland, Rebellion, Reconstruction, and Redemption, 484.

  13.  In 1870 Sen. Hiram Revels of Mississippi and Rep. Joseph Rainey of South Carolina became the first African Americans to serve in Congress. “Black Americans in Congress,” History, Art and Archives: House of Representatives, http://history.house.gov/Exhibitions-and-Publications/BAIC/Black-Americans-in-Congress/, accessed February 10, 2015.

  14.  Wise and Rowland, Rebellion, Reconstruction, and Redemption, 484.

  15.  “How Hard Prejudice Dies,” Christian Recorder (Philadelphia, PA), June 1, 1882; “Drawing the Color Line,” The Boston Globe, May 12, 1882; “Ordered Him Out of His Hotel,” The Herald and News (Newberry, SC), January 28, 1904.

  16.  “Robert Smalls,” Augusta Chronicle (GA), October 23, 1877 (originally published in the New York Sun).

  17.  Miller, Gullah Statesman, 114–33; Bailey, Morgan, and Taylor, Biographical Dictionary of the South Carolina Senate, 1484; Rayford W. Logan and Michael R. Winston, Dictionary of American Negro Biography (New York: W. W. Norton, 1983); “No New Trials for Smalls and Cardoza,” New York Times, December 4, 1878; “The Persecution of Mr. Smalls, 1878,” New York Times, December 6, 1878.

  18.  House Committee on Naval Affairs, Authorizing the President to Place Robert Smalls on the Retired List of the Navy, 47th Cong., 2nd sess., 1883, H. Rep. 1887.

  19.  Ibid.

  20.  Resolution introduced by George White, May 19, 1900, House of Representatives, 56th Cong., 1st sess., 33 Cong. Rec. 5715 (1900).

  21.  Miller, Gullah Statesman, 27.

  22.  “Speech of Hon. Robert Smalls,” Friday, July 30, 1886, House of Representatives, 17 Cong. Rec. 319 (1886); Edward A. Miller, Lincoln’s Abolitionist General (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1997), 261.

  23.  DeTreville v. Smalls, 98 U.S. 517 (1878); Wise and Rowland, Rebellion, Reconstruction, and Redemption, 267.

  24.  History, Art and Archives: House of Representatives, http://history.house.gov/Exhibitions-and-Publications/BAIC/Black-Americans-in-Congress/, accessed February 10, 2015.

  25.  Miller, Gullah Statesman, 182–87; Uya, From Slavery to Public Service, 155.

  26.  “Gen’l Robert Smalls of Steamer Planter Fame Passes Away,” Savannah Tribune, February 27, 1915; “South Carolina, Death Records, 1821–1961,” Ancestry.com.

  27.  Moore interviews.

  28.  “Bampfield Rites Held in Beaufort Cemetery,” Beaufort Gazette, March 26, 1959; Moore interviews.

  29.  Moore interviews; “Robert Smalls,” Christian Recorder, June 12, 1884.

  30.  “W. Robert Smalls,” Toledo Blade, July 31, 1970.

  31.  “Last Tribute of Respect Paid General Smalls,” Savannah Tribune, March 6, 1915.

  32.  “Latest Army Vessel Honors Black American Hero,” The United States Army, https://www.army.mil/article/4877/latest-army-vessel-honors-black-american-hero, accessed December 1, 2016.

  33.  “Museum of African American History Reveals History and Vision,” Rollcall.com, http://www.rollcall.com/news/hoh/museum-african-american-history-reveals-history-vision, accessed December 1, 2016; “Charleston Begins to Address Black History with Robert Smalls Memorial, Charleston City Paper, May 9, 2012, http://www.charlestoncitypaper.com/charleston/charleston-begins-to-address-black-history-with-robert-smalls-memorial/Content?oid=4070879, accessed December 1, 2016.

  34.  “Remaking a State,” New York Times, December 10, 1895.

  Index

  The index that appeared in the print version of this title does not match the pages in your e-book. Please use the search function on your e-reading device to search for terms of interest. For your reference, the terms that appear in the print index are listed below.

  3rd South Carolina Colored Troops

  13th Amendment

  abolitionists

  black troops and

  Brisbane, William Henry

  Chase, Salmon

  Delany, Martin

  Douglass, Frederick

  Emancipation Proclamation and

  French, Mansfield

  Fugitive Slave Act and

  Garrison, William Lloyd

  Grimké, Angelina

  Higginson, T. W.

  Howard, Oliver

  Hunter, David

  Lovejoy, Owen

  Phillips, Wendell

  Redpath, James

  Saxton, Rufus

  Smalls, Robert and

  Still, William

  surrender of Confederacy and

  African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church

  Allston, Abram

  American Freedmen’s Inquiry Commission

  Ancrum, Eliza

  Anderson, Robert

  Ashdale Plantation

&nbs
p; Bacon, Francis

  Bampfield, Samuel Jones

  Barnum, P. T.

  Barnwell, Thomas O.

  Battery Wagner

  Battle of Antietam

  Battle of Bull Run

  Battle of Fredericksburg

  Battle of Olustee

  Battle of Port Royal

  Beecher, Henry Ward

  Bell, John

  Benham, Henry W.

  Bennett, Augustus G.

  Bennett Place, North Carolina

  Black Codes

  See also slave codes

  “Black Dave.” See Hunter, David

  Booth, John Wilkes

  Boston Post (newspaper)

  Breckinridge, John

  Brisbane, William Henry

  Buchanan, James

  Bureau of Colored Troops

  Bureau of Emancipation

  Bureau of Ordnance

  Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands. See Freedmen’s Bureau

  Butler, Benjamin

  Cameron, Simon

  Carney, William

  Carolinas Campaign

  See also Sherman, William Tecumseh

  Catto, Octavius

  Charleston Daily Courier (newspaper)

  Charleston Gas Light Company

  Charleston Mercury (newspaper)

  Chase, Salmon P.

  Chesnut, Mary Boykin

  Chisholm, Samuel

  Christian Recorder (newspaper)

  Civil Rights Act of 1866

  Cleveland, Grover

  Coffee, George A.

  Cole’s Island

  Colored People’s Educational Monument Association

  Colored People’s Union League Association

  Committee on Credentials

  Committee on War Claims

  Confederate Department of South Carolina

  Confiscation Act of 1861

  Confiscation Act of 1862

  Constitutional Union Party

  cotton

  abandonment of crop during Civil War

  Charleston and

  destruction of crop during Civil War

  economic importance of

  Northern business interests and

  plantations and

  Sea Island and

  slavery and

  transport of

  Union seizure of crops

  Craft, William and Ellen

  crops

  indigo

  rice

  See also cotton

  Cuba

  Dahlgren, John

  Daily National Republican (newspaper)

  Davis, Annie

  Davis, Jeff C.

  Davis, Jefferson

  Delany, Martin

  Democratic Party

  Department of South Carolina and Georgia

  Department of the Gulf

  Department of the South

  Department of the West

  DeTreville, William

  Douglas, Stephen

  Douglass, Frederick

  draft riots

  Dred Scott decision

  Du Pont, Samuel Francis

  attack on Charleston

  death

  Fox, Gustavus and

  French, Mansfield and

  Hunter, David and

  New Ironsides and

  Pierce, Edward and

  Planter and

  at Port Royal

  replacement of

  Rodgers, John and

  Saxton, Rufus and

  Sherman, Thomas and

  Smalls, Robert and

  South Atlantic Blocking Squadron

  Stono River and

  view of slavery

  Wabash and

  Welles, Gideon and

  See also South Atlantic Blocking Squadron

  Ebenezer Creek

  elections

  1860 presidential

  1864 presidential

  African Americans and

  Smalls’ loss in congressional

  Elliott, Thomas

  Elwell, J. J.

  Emancipation Proclamation

  Etiwan (ship)

  Evening Post (newspaper)

  Fannie (ship)

  Ferguson, John

  Foote, Andrew Hull

  Fort Beauregard

  Fort Johnson

  Fort Monroe

  Fort Moultrie

  Fort Pillow

  Fort Pinckney

  Fort Ripley

  Fort Sumter

  Confederate siege of

  end of Civil War and

  Fort Johnson and

  Keokuk and

  Planter and

  Smalls, Robert and

  Southern blockade and

  Special Order No. 35 and

  start of Civil War and

  Union siege of

  Weehawken and

  Fort Walker

  Fox, Gustavus V.

  Frazier, Garrison

  Freedman’s Bureau

  See also Quartermaster Department

  Fremont, John C.

  French, Mansfield

  background

  black troops and

  Du Pont, Samuel Francis and

  Emancipation Proclamation and

  Pierce, Edward and

  Port Royal Experiment and

  Smalls, Robert and

  tax sales and

  Fripp, John

  Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

  Fullerton, Joseph

  Galena (ship)

  Garrison, William Lloyd

  General Clinch (ship)

  See also Relyea, Charles J.

  General Orders (Confederate)

  No. 5

  No. 60

  General Orders (Union)

  No. 252

  Gibbes, Jack

  Goines, George W. 177

  Gourdine, Alfred

  Grant, Ulysses S.

  Greeley, Horace

  Grimes, James

  Grimké, Angelina

  Gullah language

  Halleck, Henry W.

  Hallowell, Edward

  Hamlin, Hannibal

  Hancock, Samuel Smith

  Harrison, Benjamin

  Higginson, T. W.

  Hilton Head Island

  Howard, Oliver O.

  Hunter, David

  attack on Charleston

  background

  Benham, Henry and

  black troops and

  declaration freeing slaves

  Department of the South and

  French, Mansfield and

  Militia Act and

  Pierce, Edward and

  Saxton, Rufus and

  Smalls, Robert and

  Stanton, Edwin and

  Institute for Colored Youth

  insurrection laws

  ironclads

  Jackson, Abraham

  James Island

  Jefferson Davis (ship)

  Jim Crow laws

  Johnson, Andrew

  Johnston, Joseph E.

  Jones, Bostick (Smalls’ stepson)

  Jones, Charlotte (Smalls’ stepdaughter)

  Jones, Clara (Smalls’ stepdaughter)

  Jones, David

  Judiciary Committee

  Julian, George

  Keckley, Elizabeth

  Keokuk (ship)

  Kingman, Samuel

  laws

  anti-segregation laws

  discriminatory laws

  insurrection laws

  racial laws

  See also Black Codes; Jim Crow laws; Militia Act

  Lee, Robert E.

  Leigh, C. C.

  Leverett, Charles

  Liberator, The (newspaper)

  Lincoln, Abraham

  assassination of

  Benham, Henry W. and

  black troops and

  Douglass, Frederick and

  draft and

  Du Pont, Samuel Francis and

  election to presidency

  Ema
ncipation Proclamation

  Freedmen’s Bureau and

  Fugitive Slave Act and

  General Orders, No. 252

  Hunter, David and

  Johnson, Andrew, and

  Militia Act and

  Planter and

  Port Royal Experiment and

  Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction

  reaction to death of

  Second Confiscation Act and

  Sherman, William and

  Smalls, Robert and

  Southern blockade and

  surrender of Confederacy and

  tax commissioners and

  Thanksgiving Proclamation

  Wade-Davis Bill and

  Lincoln, Mary Todd

  Louisiana Native Guard

  Lovejoy, Owen

  Lowry, Morrow B.

  martial law, declaration of

  McClellan, George B.

  McClellan (ship)

  McKee, Henry

  background

  bio

  at Confederate Hospital

  emancipation of slaves and

  family

  John (father) and

  Margaret (mother) and

  plantations

  Polite, Lydia and

  Smalls, Robert and

  town of Beaufort and

  McKee, Jane

  McKim, J. Miller

  McNulty (captain of Fannie)

  military drafts

  Militia Act of 1792

  Militia Act of 1795

  Militia Act of 1862

  Mitchell, Nelson

  Moe, S. B.

  Monitor (ship)

  “monitor madness”

  Morrison, William

  Nat Turner Rebellion

  National Freedmen’s Relief Association

  National Museum of African American History and Culture

  National Union Party

  National Urban League

  Naval Committee

  New Bedford Mercury (newspaper)

  New Ironsides (ship)

  See also ironsides

  New York Herald (newspaper)

  Nickels, John Frederick

  Nicolay, John G.

  Nobles, William H.

  Nordhoff, Charles

  Onward (ship)

 

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