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Planter, the

Robert Small was an intelligent slave, and pilot of the little steamer Planter, in Charleston Harbor. Small and eight of his dusky companions, on the evening of May 11, 1863, after the white officers of the vessel had gone ashore to spend the night, went out of the harbor with the Planter. When out of the range of Confederate batteries, Small raised a white flag and went out to Dupont's blockading squadron, where he gave up the vessel to the captain of the Augusta. She was sent to the Wabash, the flag-ship, where Small gave Commodore Dupont valuable information.

Harper and Brothers Publishers. . New York. 1902.

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