![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Colored Troops, and with them was 17-year-old Susie King (later Taylor), the nurse, teacher and laundress to Company E. Among the Union troops entering the city were the men of the 33rd U.S. South Carolina had been the first state to secede from the Union in 1861, and Fort Sumter in Charleston harbor was the scene of the initial battle. Publications: Reminiscences of My Life in Camp (1902).Īfter four years of the bloodiest fighting in American history, Union troops captured Charleston in February 1865. Colored Troops, as a laundress, nurse, and teacher was a teacher and house servant in Savannah, Georgia (1866–74) moved to Boston (1874) organized the Women's Relief Corps (1886) was president of local WRC (1893). 1902) children: (first marriage) one son (died 1898).īorn a slave escaped to freedom during the Civil War (April 1862) joined the First South Carolina Volunteers, later the 33rd U.S. Born Susie Baker on August 6, 1848, on the Isle of Wight off Savannah, Georgia died on October 6, 1912, in Boston, Massachusetts daughter of Raymond Baker and Hagar Ann (Reed) Baker (slaves on the Grest farm) married Sergeant Edward King, early 1860s (died in September 1866) married Russell L. ![]() Author of Reminiscences of My Life in Camp, the only Civil War memoir by an African-American woman veteran. ![]()
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