A Black woman's Civil War memoirs : reminiscences of my life in camp with the 33rd U.S. Colored Troops, late 1st South Carolina Volunteers

This slim volume of the random recollections of Susie King Taylor tells military history from the viewpoint of a woman.  Taylor was born a slave, and after gaining her freedom early in the war served as a laundress for the first black regiment of the United States.  As Colonel Higginson states in the introduction, this is “the plain record of simple lives led in stormy times.”