Was going to post this earlier but then my internet device barfed and I had to go into the local T-mobile shop for a new sim card. So here we are again…

A Navy ship named for a Confederate victory now honors a Black Union hero

The U.S. Navy has finally shed the last two ship names that honored the Confederacy — and renamed one of them in honor of a man whose life story reads like an action movie hero.

The USS Chancellorsville is now called the USS Robert Smalls, the man who stole a Confederate steamer loaded with guns and delivered it to the Union Navy, delivering himself and 16 other crew and their families from slavery.

Likewise, Fort Rucker which was named for a Confederate, will now be called Fort Novosel, for a Medal of Honor helicopter pilot who rescued thousands and Ft Polk being renamed Fort Johnson for Sgt. William Henry Johnson, a North Carolina native who served in the Army during World War I and was awarded the Medal of Honor.