Event:
1862 - The , a steamer and gunship, steals through Confederate lines and is passed to the Union, by a southern slave, Robert Smalls, who later was officially appointed as captain, becoming the first black man to command a United States ship.
Reference:
1862: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1862
Robert Smalls: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Smalls
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