Kate: The Journal of A Confederate Nurse

by Kate Cumming, Richard Barksdale Harwell (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780807122679
Publisher:	Louisiana State University Press
Publication date:	04/01/1998
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.72(d)

About the Author

Richard Barksdale Harwell wrote or edited over twenty books on the Civil War, including The Confederate Reader and The Union Reader.

Editorial Reviews

This is one of the best personal records to come out of the War Between the States and certainly a worthy historical medical record of that bloody struggle. Kate Cumming must have an undisputed place with such other magnificent women of her day as Florence Nightingale, Kate Stone, Phoebe Pember, and Clara Barton.

Journal of the History of Medicine

Cumming portrays the fortunes of the Confederacy with remarkable acuity. That her journal is an invaluable historical source is self-evident, but even more than this, it is a fascinating book.

Louisiana History

Written by a courageous and defiant lady, this journal is in many respects the most revealing personal narrative of life in the general hospitals of the beleaguered Confederacy.

North Carolina Historical Review - H. H. Cunningham

Cumming served the Confederacy as a nurse in Alabama and Mississippi. Along with the descriptions of the fighting, she provides insight into medical practices and hospital systems of the times as well as civilian attitudes toward the war.

Library Journal