These are some pics from the christening of the Major General Robert Smalls. This ship was named after my great great grandfather. He was the first black person to captain a navy ship and the most senior officer in the navy during the civil war. This ship is the first Army ship to be named after a civil war era person and an African American.
I was supposed to be the speaker at the event representing our family but couldn't go because of surgery the week before for a ruptured Achilles.
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