Reminiscences Of My Life In Camp

Author : Suzie King Taylor
Publisher : BIG BYTE BOOKS
Page : 61 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781939331106

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Reminiscences of My Life In Camp by Suzie King Taylor Pdf

uzie King Taylor made a remarkable journey from slavery to freedom through service with the first black Civil War regiment to fight for freedom in America's history. Written toward the end of her life, her memories are not those of a battle veteran, though she helped care for plenty of shattered bodies, heard the guns, and saw rebel soldiers at close range. At risk to her life and freedom, she served throughout the war as a teenaged nurse. Assigned as a laundress, she actually did very little laundering but instead played an important role in the care and spirits of black soldiers and their white commanders. Her depth of feeling about the past and her passionate hopes for the future bring her writing to life. This is an important contribution to American history that is made available in this volume for the first time for e-readers. Susie King Taylor (1848-1912) was an African American army nurse with the first black Union troops during the Civil War. She wrote the only memoir of an African-American woman who had experience with combat troops. She was also the first African American to teach in a school for former slaves in Georgia. There is great beauty in some of the small details of Suzie King's recollections. She briefly ponders in amazement her ability to acclimate to the horrors of war. "It seems strange how our aversion to seeing suffering is overcome in war, how we are able to see the most sickening sights, such as men with their limbs blown off and mangled by the deadly shells, without a shudder; and instead of turning away, how we hurry to assist in alleviating their pain, bind up their wounds, and press the cool water to their parched lips, with feelings only of sympathy and pity." She also writes of her delight in becoming proficient at field-stripping, cleaning, and shooting a musket. Her final chapter is an eloquent plea for civil rights and a recognition that emancipation's promise was still a distant goal. Every memoir of the American Civil War provides us with another view of the catastrophe that changed the country forever. For the first time, this long out-of-print volume is available as an affordable, well-formatted book for e-readers and smartphones. Be sure to LOOK INSIDE by clicking the cover above or download a sample.

Author : Susie King Taylor
Publisher : Hewlett Press
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2008-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781408640319

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Reminiscences of My Life in Camp with the 33d United States Colored Troops, Late 1st S. C. Volunteers by Susie King Taylor Pdf

Originally published in 1897, this early works is a fascinating novel of the period and still an interesting read today. Contents include; The function of Latin, Chansons De Geste, The Matter of Britain, Antiquity in Romance, The making of English and the settlement of European Prosody, Middle High German Poetry, The 'Fox, ' The 'Rose, ' and the minor Contributions of France, Icelandic and Provencal, The Literature of the Peninsulas, and Conclusion..... Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwor

Author : Susie King Taylor
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0820326666

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Reminiscences of My Life in Camp by Susie King Taylor Pdf

Near the end of her classic wartime account, Susie King Taylor writes, "there are many people who do not know what some of the colored women did during the war." For her own part, Taylor spent four years--without pay or formal training--nursing sick and wounded members of a black regiment of Union soldiers. In addition, she worked as a camp cook, laundress, and teacher. Written from a perspective unique in the literature of the Civil War, Reminiscences of My Life in Camp not only chronicles daily life on the battlefront but also records interactions between blacks and whites, men and women, and Northerners and Southerners during and after the war.Taylor tells of being born into slavery and of learning, in secret, to read and write. She describes maturing under her wartime responsibilities and traveling with the troops in South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. After the war, Taylor dedicated herself to improving the lives of black Southerners and black Union Army veterans. The final chapters of Reminiscences are filled with depictions of the racism to which these efforts often exposed her. This volume reproduces the text of the original 1902 edition. Catherine Clinton's new introduction provides historical context for the events that form the backdrop of Taylor's memoir, as well as for the problems of race and gender it illuminates.

Author : Joshua Melancthon Addeman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : African American soldiers
ISBN : SRLF:A0011573524

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Reminiscences of Two Years with the Colored Troops by Joshua Melancthon Addeman Pdf

Author : Catherine Clinton
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0820320749

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Civil War Stories by Catherine Clinton Pdf

Recounts the story of Fanny Kemble and her two daughters, one of whom lived with her mother in the North, while the other remained with their father in the South.

Author : Neil Young
Publisher : Plume
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780147516510

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Special Deluxe by Neil Young Pdf

Quirky and wonderfully candid, Neil Young's second book of reminiscences is as compelling as his first book. He returns with more unforgettable stories about his six decades in the music business - but this is not your average rock biography. He centres this work on one of his life's passions, cars, using the framework of all the cars he's ever owned to construct a narrative of his life and career, exploring and demonstrating how memories are attached to objects. Young also expresses regret for the environmental impact of his past cars, and now passionately advocates the use of clean energy. 'Special Deluxe' is a mix of memoir and environmental politics by one of the most gifted and influential artists of our time.

Author : Pamela Jain Dell
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781496664785

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Memoir of Susie King Taylor by Pamela Jain Dell Pdf

Susie King Taylor, born a slave in 1848, would learn to read at secret schools and go on to teach countless others to read and write. Follow the course of the Civil War in her own words as she remembers her work as a nurse and teacher with African-American soldiers.

Author : Sigrid Nunez
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780698172807

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Sempre Susan by Sigrid Nunez Pdf

From the author of The Friend, winner of the 2018 National Book Award. "The masterpiece of the ‘I knew Susan’ minigenre" – A.O. Scott, The New York Times A poignant, intimate memoir of one of America’s most esteemed and fascinating cultural figures, and a deeply felt tribute. Sigrid Nunez was an aspiring writer when she first met Susan Sontag, already a legendary figure known for her polemical essays, blinding intelligence, and edgy personal style. Sontag introduced Nunez to her son, the writer David Rieff, and the two began dating. Soon Nunez moved into the apartment that Rieff and Sontag shared. As Sontag told Nunez, “Who says we have to live like everyone else?” Sontag’s influence on Nunez, who went on to become a successful novelist, would be profound. Described by Nunez as “a natural mentor” who saw educating others as both a moral obligation and a source of endless pleasure, Sontag inevitably infected those around her with her many cultural and intellectual passions. In this poignant, intimate memoir, Nunez speaks of her gratitude for having had, as an early model, “someone who held such an exalted, unironic view of the writer’s vocation.” Published more than six years after Sontag’s death, Sempre Susan is a startlingly truthful portrait of this outsized personality, who made being an intellectual a glamorous occupation.

Author : Susie King Taylor
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 076141648X

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The Diary of Susie King Taylor, Civil War Nurse by Susie King Taylor Pdf

Excerpts from the diary of a woman who served as nurse to a regiment of black soldiers fighting for the Union during the Civil War, including her observations on the treatment of "coloreds" after the war.

Author : Ariana Neumann
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781982106393

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When Time Stopped by Ariana Neumann Pdf

In this astonishing story that “reads like a thriller and is so, so timely” (BuzzFeed) Ariana Neumann dives into the secrets of her father’s past: “Like Anne Frank’s diary, it offers a story that needs to be told and heard” (Booklist, starred review). In 1941, the first Neumann family member was taken by the Nazis, arrested in German-occupied Czechoslovakia for bathing in a stretch of river forbidden to Jews. He was transported to Auschwitz. Eighteen days later his prisoner number was entered into the morgue book. Of thirty-four Neumann family members, twenty-five were murdered by the Nazis. One of the survivors was Hans Neumann, who, to escape the German death net, traveled to Berlin and hid in plain sight under the Gestapo’s eyes. What Hans experienced was so unspeakable that, when he built an industrial empire in Venezuela, he couldn’t bring himself to talk about it. All his daughter Ariana knew was that something terrible had happened. When Hans died, he left Ariana a small box filled with letters, diary entries, and other memorabilia. Ten years later Ariana finally summoned the courage to have the letters translated, and she began reading. What she discovered launched her on a worldwide search that would deliver indelible portraits of a family loving, finding meaning, and trying to survive amid the worst that can be imagined. A “beautifully told story of personal discovery” (John le Carré), When Time Stopped is an unputdownable detective story and an epic family memoir, spanning nearly ninety years and crossing oceans. Neumann brings each relative to vivid life, and this “gripping, expertly researched narrative will inspire those looking to uncover their own family histories” (Publishers Weekly).

Author : Ben Viljoen
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783732624485

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My Reminiscences of the Anglo-Boer War by Ben Viljoen Pdf

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Author : Rees Howell Gronow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Europe
ISBN : HARVARD:HN674N

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The Reminiscences and Recollections of Captain Gronow by Rees Howell Gronow Pdf

Author : Penelope Lively
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780525558385

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Life in the Garden by Penelope Lively Pdf

From the Booker Prize winner and national bestselling author, reflections on gardening, art, literature, and life Penelope Lively takes up her key themes of time and memory, and her lifelong passions for art, literature, and gardening in this philosophical and poetic memoir. From the courtyards of her childhood home in Cairo to a family cottage in Somerset, to her own gardens in Oxford and London, Lively conducts an expert tour, taking us from Eden to Sissinghurst and into her own backyard, traversing the lives of writers like Virginia Woolf and Philip Larkin while imparting her own sly and spare wisdom. "Her body of work proves that certain themes never go out of fashion," writes the New York Times Book Review, as true of this beautiful volume as of the rest of the Lively canon. Now in her eighty-fourth year, Lively muses, "To garden is to elide past, present, and future; it is a defiance of time."

Author : Kim Thuy
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781847658029

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Ru by Kim Thuy Pdf

Ru: In Vietnamese it means lullaby; in French it is a small stream, but also signifies a flow - of tears, blood, money. Kim Thy's Ru is literature at its most crystalline: the flow of a life on the tides of unrest and on to more peaceful waters. In vignettes of exquisite clarity, sharp observation and sly wit, we are carried along on an unforgettable journey from a palatial residence in Saigon to a crowded and muddy Malaysian refugee camp, and onward to a new life in Quebec. There, the young girl feels the embrace of a new community, and revels in the chance to be part of the American Dream. As an adult, the waters become rough again: now a mother of two, she must learn to shape her love around the younger boy's autism. Moving seamlessly from past to present, from history to memory and back again, Ru is a book that celebrates life in all its wonder: its moments of beauty and sensuality, brutality and sorrow, comfort and comedy.

Author : Theodore Gerrish
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Maine
ISBN : UVA:X000896818

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Army Life by Theodore Gerrish Pdf

1. From Portland to Antietam -- 2. Battle of Antietam -- 3. From Antietam to Fredericksburgh -- 4. Three visits to Fredericksburgh -- 5. Hooker's campaign - Chancellorsville -- 6. Gettysburgh -- 7. From Gettysburgh to Rappahannock Station -- 8. Rappahannock Station -- 9. The Wilderness campaign opened -- 10. The Battle of Spottsylvania -- 11. North Anna to the James -- 12. In front of Petersburgh -- 13. The Weldon railroad -- 14. Five Forks -- 15. The surrender -- 16. Appomattox to Richmond -- 17. Marching through Richmond -- 18. The great review -- 19. Homeward bound -- 20. Hospital life -- 21. Pen pictures of Union generals -- 22. A review.