(MILITARY CIVIL WAR) TAYLOR SUSIE KING Reminiscences of My

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(MILITARY--CIVIL WAR.) TAYLOR, SUSIE KING. Reminiscences of My Life in Camp with the 33rd United States Colored Troops Late 1st S.C. Volunteers. Frontispiece portrait and additional illustrations. 8vo, original gilt-pictorial cloth. An exceptional copy. Boston: Published by the Author, 1904

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second edition. A fascinating memoir by a woman who opens her Reminiscence thus: "My great-great-grandmother was 120 years old when she died. She had seven children, and five of her boys were in the Revolutionary War." Susie King went to war as a laundry woman, her husband was a common foot-soldier. This remarkable woman's memoir is among the great narratives of the Civil War. It presents a unique view of life in the camp from the standpoint of a person of color.