This edition has been expanded and annotated with updated information.
Every memoir of the American Civil War provides us with another view of the catastrophe that changed the country forever..
Her final chapter is an eloquent plea for civil rights and a recognition that emancipation\'s promise was still a distant goal.
She also writes of her delight in becoming proficient at field-stripping, cleaning, and shooting a musket.
It seems strange how our aversion to seeing suffering is overcome in war, how we are able to see the most sickening sights, such as men with their limbs blown off and mangled by the deadly shells, without a shudder; and instead of turning away, how we hurry to assist in alleviating their pain, bind up their wounds, and press the cool water to their parched lips, with feelings only of sympathy and pity.
She briefly ponders in amazement her ability to acclimate to the horrors of war.
There is great beauty in some of the small details of Suzie King\'s recollections.
She was also the first African American to teach in a school for former slaves in Georgia.
She wrote the only memoir of an African-American woman who had experience with combat troops.
Susie King Taylor (1848-1912) was an African American army nurse with the first black Union troops during the Civil War.
This is an important contribution to American history that is made available in this volume for the first time for e-readers.
Her depth of feeling about the past and her passionate hopes for the future bring her writing to life.
Assigned as a laundress, she actually did very little laundering but instead played an important role in the care and spirits of black soldiers and their white commanders.
At risk to her Life and freedom, she served throughout the war as a teenaged nurse.
Written toward the end of her life, her memories are not those of a battle veteran, though she helped care for plenty of shattered bodies, heard the guns, and saw rebel soldiers at close range.
Suzie King Taylor made a remarkable journey from slavery to freedom through service with the first black Civil War regiment to fight for freedom in America\'s history.
This edition has been expanded and annotated with updated information
