Object Details
- Description (Brief)
- One (1) Robert Smalls medal
- United States, 1972
- Obverse Image: Bust of Smalls.
- Obverse Text: ROBERT SMALLS / NAVAL OFFICER / CONGRESSMAN / 1839 1915
- Reverse Image: Confederate gunboat.
- Reverse Text: CAPTURED THE CONFEDERATE NAVY'S GUNBOAT "THE PLANTER" / MAY 12, 1862
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- issuing authority
- American Negro Commemorative Society
- maker
- Franklin Mint
- Date made
- 1972
- Credit Line
- American Negro Commemorative Society
- Physical Description
- silver (overall material)
- Measurements
- medal: 3.88 cm; x 1 1/2 in
- Object Name
- medal
- Other Terms
- Medal; Commemorative
