Susie King Taylor kept a diary about her participation in the Civil War. Most of her wartime activities were centered in South Carolina, Florida, and Georgia. Born a slave in Georgia in 1848, Susie Baker (she later became Susie King Taylor) gained her freedom in April 1862. She, along with a number of her family members, was enlisted in a newly-formed regiment of black soldiers, the 33rd U.S. Colored Troops (initially the 1st South Carolina Volunteers). Before long her responsibilities multiplied due to her nursing skills and her ability to read and write.

After the war Taylor opened a night school in Savannah for freedpeople. She became a founding member of the 67 Women's Relief Corps and was elected president in 1893.

You can read Susie King Taylor's civil war diary at: http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/
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