As a young slave girl, Susie King Taylor had been secretly taught to read and write. Her abilities proved invaluable to the Union Army as they began to form regiments of African American soldiers. Hired by the 1st South Carolina coloured Volunteers as a laundress in 1862, her primary role was nurse to wounded soldiers
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