Susie King Taylor’s book “A Black Woman’s Civil War Memoirs—Reminisces of My Life in Camp with the 33rd U.S. Colored Troops, late Ist Carolina Volunteers,” is a unique and valuable perspective on the war.
It’s an insightful revelation that begins with her own life story, which is perhaps best presented here in her own words. “I was born under the slave law in Georgia in 1848,” she begins, “and was brought up by my grandmother in Savannah. There were three of us with her, my younger sister and brother. My brother and I being the two eldest, we were sent to a friend of my grandmother, Mrs. Woodhouse, a widow, to learn to read and write.
“I remained at her school for two years or more, when I was sent to a Mrs. Mary Beasley, where I continued until May, 1860, when she told my grandmother she had taught me all she knew, and grandmother had better get someone else who could teach me more, so I stopped my studies for a while.
Along with her teaching, Taylor often worked as a nurse, though this experience is not fully discussed in her memoirs. We do learn, however, that she often accompanied Clara Barton, the founder of the American Red Cross, on her rounds, particularly after the Fort Wagner massacre. This was during Barton’s eight months in the Sea Islands. Like Barton, Taylor endured and tended to the wounded, doing all she could to alleviate the pain and sickening circumstances of the soldiers.
Eventually she, faced with the advent of charter schools, was no longer able to make a living as a teacher. She bundled her child and took a job with a wealthy white woman from Boston. Though she was no longer in the South, she remained concerned about liberty, justice and equality. “Living here in Boston where the Black man is given equal justice, I must say a word on the general treatment of my race, both in the North and South, in this twentieth century,” she recorded in her memoirs.
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