num_pages: 352
description: Scottish-born, Alabama-bred Kate Cumming was one of the first women to offer her services for the care of the South’s wounded soldiers. Her detailed journal, first published in 1866, provides a riveting look behind the lines of Civil War action in depicting civilian attitudes, army medical practices, and the administrative workings of the Confederate hospital system.
language: English
title: Kate : the Journal of a Confederate Nurse
titlecomplete: Kate : the Journal of a Confederate Nurse
genres: Biography, History, Health Care, Civil War History, Civil War, Memoir
ratings_count: 76
publisher: Baton Rouge