High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Planter (1860) was a steamer captured by the Union Navy during the American Civil War when Robert Smalls, a Southern slave, managed to stealthfully steer her past Confederate defenses and surrender her to Union Navy forces. For a short period, Planter served the Union Navy during her struggle against the Confederate States of America as a gunboat. However, as she burned wood, which was scarce where the Navy was operating, the Navy turned the ship over to the Union Army for use at Fort Pulaski.

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