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One of the few pictures of the 1st SCV in Beaufort, likely at Camp Saxton. Photographer unknown.

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.

In this report of the Pennsylvania Relief Association, a report comes in from Beaufort in which there are several speeches recorded.

The only account of a Civil War nurse that was written by a Black woman, Susie King Taylor's Reminiscences provide invaluable knowledge of the 1st SCV, its soldiers, officers, and movements.

These records, compiled by the Adjutant General's Office, help us trace the movements of the 1st South Carolina, and why they moved.

Thomas Wentworth Higginson's account of the time he spent with the 1st SCV during the Civil War.

Seth Rogers describes his time as a surgeon for the 1st SCV. His letters are transcribed and hosted by Florida History Online. Click the title to access.

Lieutenant Colonel Trowbridge gave this address on October 11, 1904. It details the 33rd USCT's actions in the immediate aftermath of the war.

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.

Image depicts the reading of the Emancipation Proclamation under the "Emancipation Oak" at Fort Saxton on January 1, 1863. After this, the members of the 1st SCV were finally, legally, freed. In the crowd are members of the USCT, with 1st SCV color…