portrait of susie king taylor is thinking about the aspect of susie king taylor and her diary and her book. she had a she understood that soldiers desire to communicate with their loved ones and to write letters and she says i taught a great many of the comrades in company e to read and write when they were off duty nearly all were anxious to learn and also her husband also work with her on that. this is a fantastic image of in the scene in beaufort south carolina with a regiment as is entitled of composed of of quote in skate. escape slaves in formation. we see the land we see the importance of this image and the rarity of space. but the comportment of the pose of the of the men and uniform it says a lot about the the next step where they were prepared to move forward then and i'm going to walk through some images here that that rarely we rarely see but we see in private collections and the importance of photography and how the picture gallery was a central place for the soldiers to enter safe place to create a sense of identity and to create an image of soldiers who were on a missio