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Near the end of her classic wartime account, Susie King Taylor writes, ""There are many people who do not know what some of the colored women did during the war."" For her own part, Taylor spent four years - without pay or formal training - nursing sick and wounded members…
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1 author picked Reminiscences of My Life in Camp as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Many African American women served as nurses, especially in the South, as Susie King Taylor did. But their stories have largely gone unrecorded. This memoir adds an important perspective to any consideration of Civil War nurses.
From Jocelyn's list on women nurses during the Civil War.
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