Story Map: Susie King Taylor- 1st South Carolina Volunteer Regiment Nurse & Teacher

This Library of Congress source features a 2019 story map on the life of Susie King Taylor, a Black Civil War nurse, teacher, laundress and writer. This source provides a visual account, using numerous primary resources, to tell the story of her upbringing in Georgia, her experiences working with the 1st South Carolina Colored Volunteer Regiment and her observations during the Reconstruction Era.

Themes include: Taylor's upbringing in Georgia, her escape from slavery, teaching in "secret schools", "contrabands" forming part of the 1st South Carolina Volunteer Regiment, government failure to pay Black troops, her admiration for several officers that headed the Regiment- Col. Charles T. Throwbridge, Col. Thomas Wentworth Higginson, the role and work of local Black women in the Regiment's camps, Harriet Tubman's role as a spy, nurse and scout for the Regiment, Taylor's role as a nurse and teacher within the Regiment, the Regiment's ambush in Jacksonville, her encounters with Union nurse Clara Barton (American Red Cross founder) at the military hospital, Taylor's first hand accounts of the battlefield with the Regiment, racial prejudice faced by the Regiment and her account of post war Black Codes, racial terror and racial inequality.

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