Susie King Taylor

CTL-E-6739 · Person · other · 1848–1912

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

Susie King Taylor (1848–1912), born enslaved in Georgia, taught freedpeople in clandestine and Union-run schools and served as nurse and laundress with the 33rd United States Colored Troops, among the first Black regiments of the Civil War. Her Reminiscences of My Life in Camp with the 33d United States Colored Troops (1902) is the only published memoir by an African American woman of her Civil War service. She later organized a corps of the Woman's Relief Corps in Boston.

Notes

Merged 2026-11-02 from the staged health pioneers packet (website/.build-work/scratch-v114/health/) under the GOV-006 founder gate opened 2026-11-02; the staged record is carried verbatim — no claim upgraded in transit (GOV-004). · Roles as staged: Nurse — Civil War nurse and teacher (33rd US Colored Troops) · Photo: Photo: Miscellaneous Items in High Demand, PPOC, Library of Congress · Public domain · Source: Wikimedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Susie_King_Taylor_LCCN2003653538.jpg) · staged for CultureTechLens Full per-asset record in this package's photo-records.json, keyed to CTL-E-6739.

Sources

• Wikipedia, 'Susie King Taylor' — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susie_King_Taylor

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