The Ticonderoga-class warship was previously known as Chancellorsville, a reference to a Confederate Civil War victory.
The U.S. guided-missile cruiser Chancellorsville, which was homeported in San Diego for many years, has been renamed, honoring a Civil War-era maritime pilot who commandeered a Confederate ship in 1862 and turned it over to the Union forces.
Smalls was born a slave and went on to become a mariner, a businessman, a publisher and a congressman who represented South Carolina, the state where he was born. The Navy decided to change the cruiser’s name because it was named after the Battle of Chancellorsville, a Confederate Civil War victory.The name change was made possible by a congressionally-backed commission that has been ridding the military of Confederate ties.
“The renaming of these assets is not about rewriting history, but to remove the focus on the parts of our history that don’t align with the tenets of this country, and instead allows us to highlight the events and people in history who may have been overlooked,” Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro said in a
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