"T" is for Taylor, Susie King [born circa 1848]. Born into slavery as Susan Baker near Savannah, Taylor became free at fourteen when her uncle led her and others to freedom. As one of thousands of black refugees on the Sea Islands, she attached herself to the First South Carolina Volunteers. Originally, she was the regimental laundress, but her other talents—especially her ability to read and write and her knowledge of folk remedies—soon gave her a wider scope of responsibility. She nursed the regiment's sick and wounded and served as its reading instructor. After the war she moved to Boston and devoted much of the rest of her life to work with the Women's Relief Corps, a national organization for female Civil War veterans. In 1902, Susie King Taylor published her recollections: A Black Woman's Civil War Memoirs.
"T" is for Taylor, Susie King [born circa 1848]
