An edition of Journal of hospital life in the Confederate Army of Tennessee, from the Battle of Shiloh to the end of the war (1866)
Kate
The Journal of a Confederate Nurse
By Kate Cumming
Publish Date
April 1998
Publisher
Louisiana State University Press
Language
eng
Pages
200
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.
subjects: Confederate States of America. Army. Dept. of Tennessee, Diaries, Nurses, Regimental histories, Army of the Tennessee (C.S.A.), Confederate States of America, United States Civil War, 1861-1865, Medical care, Confederate Personal narratives, Personal narratives, Confederate, Hospitals, History, United states, history, civil war, 1861-1865, personal narratives, confederate, Nurses, biography, Confederate states of america, biography, Confederate States of America. Army. Department of Tennessee, Military Nursing
People: Kate Cumming (1835-1909)
Places: Confederate States of America, Tennessee, United States
Times: Civil War, 1861-1865