Kate
Subtitle: the journal of a Confederate nurse
By: by Kate Cumming ; edited by Richard Barksdale Harwell.
Contributors: Harwell, Richard Barksdale.
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Baton Rouge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 321
Subjects: Cumming, Kate, 1835-1909 -- Diaries.; Confederate States of America. Army. Dept. of Tennessee.; Nurses -- Confederate States of America -- Diaries.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives, Confederate.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Hospitals.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Medical care.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Regimental histories.
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. --Publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Originally published: A journal of hospital life in the Confederate Army of Tennessee, from the Battle of Shiloh to the end of the war. Louisville : J.P. Morton ; New Orleans : W. Evelyn, [c1866].