Susie King Taylor served as a nurse in the 33rd USCT for three years, while simultaneously working as a laundress and teaching children and soldiers to read.
Charlotte Forten, later Grimké, taught freedpeople at the Penn School on St. Helena's Island. She wrote of her experience for the Atlantic Monthly during the war.
Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper devoted several pages to the 1st SCV in this issue. The captions for the three images are as follows:
1. Company A of the 1st South Carolinian (Colored) Union Volunteers Taking the Oath of Allegiance to the U.S.…