Black narratives of the Civil War are few. Susie King Taylor’s 1902 slender volume, Reminiscences of My Life in Camp, is written with earnest simplicity. Her account records the wartime camp experience of a woman born into slavery who was a regimental laundress and nurse in the Thirty-third United States Colored Infantry for 4 years.
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Black narratives of the Civil War are few. Susie King Taylor’s 1902 slender volume, Reminiscences of My Life in Camp, is written with earnest simplicity. Her account records the wartime camp experience of a woman born into slavery who was a regimental laundress and nurse in the Thirty-third United States Colored Infantry for 4 years.