(A)
Susie worked along side Clara Burton,
founder of the American Red Cross and
Martha Bush Gray as nurses for the 54
Mass. After the battle of Olustee, Fl.
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(B)
Served as nurse, cook, and teacher for
the 1st So. Carolina Infantry Regiment.
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(C)
Following the war she opened a school
for ex-slaves.
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(D)
When she was about seven years old,
her owner allowed her to go to Savannah to live with her grandmother.
Despite Georgia's harsh laws against the formal education of slaves she
attended two secret schools taught by Black women. Then extended her
education with the help of two white youths, both of whom knowingly
violated law and custom
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