Robert Smalls (April 5 , 1839–February 23, 1915)

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Robert Smalls says that 6,000 negroes are behind Savannah batteries and 20,000 in Charleston forts Hartford Daily Courant, March 3, 1863, 2
War Clouds in South Carolina the White and Black Clans Gathering for Battle Parade of the New Rifle Clubs New York Herald, May 4, 1871, 3
Bob Smalls. How this M. C. Delivered the Pilot Into the Hands of the Union Cincinnati Daily Times, July 28, 1876, 3
The Downfall Of Smalls. Crushing Evidence Of His Acceptance Of A $5,000 Bribe. Woodruff's Fatal Augusta Chronicle, Oct. 10, 1877, 1
Robert Smalls. The Part He Took in Running Out the Planter Augusta Chronicle, Oct. 23, 1877, 5
A Congressman Convicted. The Hon. Robert Smalls, Colored, Found Guilty of Accepting a Bribe Daily Inter Ocean (Chicago), Nov. 15, 1877, 3
Robert Smalls, Kalamazoo Gazette, Nov. 25, 1877, 2
Senteces Pronounced on Cardozo, Smalls and Carpenter, New York Herald, Nov. 27, 1877, 7
Carolina Corruption. More Samples of the Official Robbery of the Palmetto State New York Herald, March 5, 1878, 7
The Case of Congressman Smalls New York Herald, December 12, 1878, 4
The Case of Congressman Smalls Wisconsin State Journal (Madison), December 17, 1878, 5
General Robert Smalls. The Colored Congressman From South Carolina In Militia Uniform Augusta Chronicle, Jan. 17, 1880, 1
Recontre between N. G. Gonzales and Robert Smalls, Dec. 24, 1881

Papers in the Case of Tillman vs. Smalls, Fifth District of South Carolina, Nov. 9, 1877. U.S. House of Representatives. 45th Congress, 1st Session, Misc. Doc. No. 11

From slave to Congressman: A tale of a life lived large (The State, Feb. 26, 2015)