USS Chancellorsville (CG-62) will be renamed after Robert Smalls, a former slave who was conscripted into Confederate service in 1862.

The Navy has renamed the USS Chancellorsville, a name honoring a Confederate victory, to the USS Robert Smalls, after an enslaved man who escaped the South by stealing a Confederate steamship.

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The Navy will rename the USS Chancellorsville for Robert Smalls, a former slave-turned-sailor known for commandeering a Confederate steamer ...

CHANCELLORSVILLE 1863: THE SOULS OF THE BRAVE. Ernest B. Furgurson. Knopf. 405 pages. $25. The day before this “most terrible bloody conflict” that claimed 30,000 casualties, Federal so… ...

The US Congressional Naming Commission is recommending the US Navy rename two ships whose names have ties to the Confederacy: the USS Chancellorsville and the USNS Maury, commissioners said Tuesday.

The Chancellorsville is named for the decisive 1863 Confederate victory by Gens. Robert E. Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson that paved the way for the Army of Northern Virginia’s ...

A federal commission on Tuesday recommended renaming the USS Chancellorsville, a guided-missile cruiser that was named after Gen. Robert E. Lee’s most famous military victory during the Civil ...

The 108-year-old monument should be stripped and removed down to its granite base plate, the commission will tell Congress in a forthcoming report on its recommendations.

An image published by the Southern Theater Command of China's People's Liberation Army appears to shows a Chinese sailor monitoring U.S. Navy cruiser USS Chancellorsville in the South China Sea on ...