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Kate - by Kate Cumming (Paperback)

Name: Kate - by Kate Cumming (Paperback)
Brand: LSU Press
SKU: 91572823
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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.
About the Author: Richard Barksdale Harwell wrote or edited over twenty books on the Civil War, including The Confederate Reader and The Union Reader.
352 Pages
Biography + Autobiography, Historical

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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.

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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"

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"

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.--H. H. Cunningham "North Carolina Historical Review"

About the Author

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

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Dimensions (Overall): 9.01 Inches (H) x 6.05 Inches (W) x .73 Inches (D)

Weight: 1.06 Pounds

Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up

Number of Pages: 352

Genre: Biography + Autobiography

Sub-Genre: Historical

Publisher: LSU Press

Format: Paperback

Author: Kate Cumming

Language: English

Street Date: April 1, 1998

TCIN: 91572823

UPC: 9780807122679

Item Number (DPCI): 247-33-8097

Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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