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U.S. Army Transport Planter
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USS Planter (I) (1862)
CSS Planter (1861 - 1862)

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Civil War Medal

Side-wheel Steamer:

Built at Charleston S.C. in 1860

During the Civil War Planter served the Confederate as a dispatch boat and transport at Charleston, S.C., 1861-62

On 13 May 1862, Robert Smalls, a slave and Planter's pilot, took the ship out of Charleston harbor and delivered her to the US Navy while her commanding officer was away

Taken into the Union navy, 30 May 1862, Acting Master Philemon Dickerson in command

USS Planter was assigned to the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron

Decommissioned and turned over to the Union Army in 1862

Redocumented, 17 November 1866

Final Disposition, lost from unknown causes 1 July 1876

Specifications:
Displacement 300 t.
Length 147'
Beam 30'
Draft 3' 9"
Speed 12.5 kts
Complement 161
Armament

one long 32-pdr

one short 24-pdr howitzer

Propulsion steam (dd>two side-wheels

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Contributed By
	247k	Steamer SS Planter at Charleston, S.C., date unknown. Photo from the New York Public Library Digital Image Collection.	Bill Gonyo
098620202	79k	Steamship *Planter* (1860-1876) loaded with 1000 bales of cotton, at Georgetown, S.C., probably in 1860-61 or 1866-76. In Confederate Army service in 1861-62, she was turned over to the Federals by her pilot, Robert Smalls, on 13 May 1862 and served in the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Army before returning to commercial use in 1866.	US Naval History and Heritage Command
098620209	419k	Colonel Lamon, escorted by Col. Duryea, landing at Fort Sumter with a flag of truce to have an interview with Major Anderson in early 1861. Note SS Planter. US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 73717	US Naval History and Heritage Command
098620208	404k	CSS Planter steamed out of Charleston harbor and and was delivered to the Federals in the early morning of 13 May 1862 by her pilot, Robert Smalls, a slave. She also brought several other black men, women and children to freedom. *Planter* subsequently served in the US Navy and US Army. Engraving published in Harper's Weekly, 14 June 1862. US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 63568	US Naval History and Heritage Command
	110k	Engraving of Robert Smalls, Pilot of the Confederate Army armed transport *Planter, who ran his ship out of Charleston Harbor, S. C., in the early morning of 13 May 1862 and delivered her to Federal forces. Planter* carried several other black men, women and children to freedom in this daring escape. published in Harper's Weekly, 1862 US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 58870	US Naval History and Heritage Command
098620207	144k	Former CSS Planter wash drawing by R.G. Skerrett, 1901. US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 57521	US Naval History and Heritage Command
	883k	The Union Army Medical supply boat *Planter* at General Hospital wharf on the end of Appomattox Street, Hopewell, VA. on the James River circa 1865. Library of Congress photo # 02055a	Bill Gonyo
098620206	185k	US Army steamer *Planter* (center) with another steamer, a schooner and several barges, at a small landing, during the Civil War This may be the General Hospital Wharf at Hopewell, VA. *Planter* may have been an army medical supply steamer. US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 42618	US Naval History and Heritage Command