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(title page) Reminiscences of My Life in Camp with the 33D United States Colored Troops Late 1st S.C. Volunteers
Susie King Taylor
82 p., ill.
Boston
Published by the Author
1902
Call number 973.781 T246 (Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University Libraries ) The electronic edition is a part of the UNC-CHdigitization project, Documenting theAmerican South.
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Page vPREFACE I HAVE been asked many times by my friends, and also by members of the Grand Army of the Republic and Women's Relief Corps, to write a book of my army life, during the war of 1861-65, with the regiment of the 1st South Carolina Colored Troops, later called 33d United States Colored Infantry.
At first I did not think I would, but as the years rolled on and my friends were still urging me to start with it, I wrote to Colonel C. T. Trowbridge (who had command of this regiment), asking his opinion and advice on the matter. His answer to me was, "Go ahead! write it; that is just what I should do, were I in your place, and I will give you all the assistance you may need, whenever you require it." This inspired me very much.
In 1900 I received a letter from a gentleman, sent from the Executive Mansion at St. Paul, Minn., saying Colonel Trowbridge had told him I was about to write a book, and when it was Page vipublished he wanted one of the first copies. This, coming from a total stranger, gave me more confidence, so I now present these reminiscences to you, hoping they may prove of some interest, and show how much service and good we can do to each other, and what sacrifices we can make for our liberty and rights, and that there were "loyal women," as well as men, in those days, who did not fear shell or shot, who cared for the sick and dying; women who camped and fared as the boys did, and who are still caring for the comrades in their declining years.
Page viiCONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION BY COL. THOMAS WENTWORTHHIGGINSON . . . . . xi
- LETTER FROM LIEUT.--COL. C. T. TROWBRIDGE . . . . .xiii
- I. A BRIEF SKETCH OF MY ANCESTORS . . . . . 1
- II. MY CHILDHOOD . . . . . 5
- III. ON ST. SIMON'S ISLAND, 1862 . . . . . 11
- IV. CAMP SAXTON--PROCLAMATION AND BARBECUE.1863 . . . . . 18
- V. MILITARY EXPEDITIONS, AND LIFE IN CAMP . . . . . 22
- VI. ON MORRIS AND OTHER ISLANDS . . . . . 31
- VII. CAST AWAY . . . . . 37
- VIII. A FLAG OF TRUCE . . . . . 40
- IX. CAPTURE OF CHARLESTON . . . . . 42
- X. MUSTERED OUT . . . . . 45
- XI. AFTER THE WAR . . . . . 53
- XII. THE WOMEN'S RELIEF CORPS . . . . . 59
- XIII. THOUGHTS ON PRESENT CONDITIONS . . . . . 61
- XIV. A VISIT TO LOUISIANA . . . . . 69
- APPENDIX
- Roster of Survivors of 33d Regiment UnitedStates Colored Troops . . . . . 79
- A List of the Battles fought by the Regiment . . . . . 82
- MRS. SUSIE KING TAYLOR . . . . . Frontispiece
- GROUP: CAPT. A. W. HEASLEY, CAPT. WALKER, CAPT.W. W. SAMPSON, CAPT. CHARLES E. PARKER . . . . . 16
- COLONEL THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON . . . . . 24
- GROUP: MAJOR. H. A. WHITNEY, LIEUT. J. B. WEST,HENRY BATCHLOTT . . . . . 28
- GROUP: LIEUT. JOHN A. TROWBRIDGE, LIEUT. ELI C.MERRIAM, LIEUT. JAMES M. THOMPSON, LIEUT.JEROME T. FURMAN . . . . . 36
- GROUP: CAPT. L. W. METCALF, CAPT. MIRON W. SAXTON,CAPT. A. W. JACKSON, CORPORAL PETER WAGGALL . . . . . 40
- LIEUT.--COL. C. T. TROWBRIDGE . . . . . 46
- SCHOOLHOUSE IN SAVANNAH . . . . . 54
DEAR MADAM,--The manuscript of the story of your army life reached me to-day. I have read it with much care and interest, and I most willingly and cordially indorse it as a truthful account of your unselfish devotion and service through more than three long years of war in which the 33d Regiment bore a conspicuous part in the great conflict for human liberty and the restoration of the Union. I most sincerely regret that through a technicality you are debarred from having your name placed on the roll of pensioners, as an Army Nurse; for among all the number of heroic women whom the government is now rewarding, I know of no one more deserving than yourself.
When I was about seven years old, Mr. Grest allowed my grandmother to take my brother and me to live with her in Savannah. There were no railroad connections in those days between this place and Savannah; all travel was by stagecoaches. I remember, as if it were yesterday, the coach which ran in from Savannah, with its driver, whose beard nearly reached his knees. His name was Shakespeare, and often I would go to the stable where he kept his horses, on Barnard Street in front of the old Arsenal, just to look at his wonderful beard.
My grandmother went every three months to see my mother. She would hire a wagon to carry Page 3bacon, tobacco, flour, molasses, and sugar. These she would trade with people in the neighboring places, for eggs, chickens, or cash, if they had it. These, in turn, she carried back to the city market, where she had a customer who sold them for her. The profit from these, together with laundry work and care of some bachelors' rooms, made a good living for her.
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MY CHILDHOOD I WAS born under the slave law in Georgia, in 1848, and was brought up by my grandmother in Savannah. There were three of us with her, my younger sister and brother. My brother and I being the two eldest, we were sent to a friend of my grandmother, Mrs. Woodhouse, a widow, to learn to read and write. She was a free woman and lived on Bay Lane, between Habersham and Price streets, about half a mile from my house. We went every day about nine o'clock, with our books wrapped in paper to prevent the police or white persons from seeing them. We went in, one at a time, through the gate, into the yard to the L kitchen, which was the schoolroom. She had twenty-five or thirty children whom she taught, assisted by her daughter, Mary Jane. The neighbors would see us going in sometimes, but they supposed we were there learning trades, as it was the custom to give children a trade of some kind. After school we left the same way we entered, one by one, when we would go to a square, about a block from the school, and wait for each other. We would gather laurel leaves Page 6and pop them on our hands, on our way home. I remained at her school for two years or more, when I was sent to a Mrs. Mary Beasley, where I continued until May, 1860, when she told my grandmother she had taught me all she knew, and grandmother had better get some one else who could teach me more, so I stopped my studies for a while.
One Sunday, two men, Adam Miller and Daniel Spaulding, were chased by some rebels as they were coming from Hope Place (which was between the Beach and Gaston Bluff), but the latter were unable to catch them. When they reached the Beach and told this, all the men on the place, about ninety, armed themselves, and next day (Monday), with Charles O'Neal as their leader, skirmished the island for the "rebs." In a short while they discovered them in the woods, hidden behind a large log, among the thick underbrush. Charles O'Neal was the first to see them, and he Page 13was killed; also John Brown, and their bodies were never found. Charles O'Neal was an uncle of Edward King, who later was my husband and a sergeant in Co. E., U. S. I. Another man was shot, but not found for three days. On Tuesday, the second day, Captain Trowbridge and some soldiers landed, and assisted the skirmishers. Word having been sent by the mail-boat Uncas to Hilton Head, later in the day Commodore Goldsborough, who was in command of the naval station, landed about three hundred marines, and joined the others to oust the rebels. On Wednesday, John Baker, the man shot on Monday, was found in a terrible condition by Henry Batchlott, who carried him to the Beach, where he was attended by the surgeon. He told us how, after being shot, he lay quiet for a day. On the second day he managed to reach some wild grapes growing near him. These he ate, to satisfy his hunger and intense thirst, then he crawled slowly, every movement causing agony, until he got to the side of the road. He lived only three months after they found him.
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