Expired Image Removed Kate Cumming of Georgia, a native of Scotland, left her home in Mobile, Alabama along with 40 other women and traveled to the Tennessee boarder to treat Confederate victims of the Battle of Shiloh. She continued as a nurse throughout the war, spending a year at a hospital in Chattanooga, Tennessee where she became a paid nurse in the Confederate Army Medical Department.
She moved to Georgia after Chattanooga fell and served in many field hospitals as Sherman's troops moved South. She was at Americus, Cherokee Springs, Dalton, Newnan, and Ringgold. At the end of the war in 1865, she was serving in Southwest Georgia.
Returning to Mobile after the war, she published an account of her nursing experiences
A Journal of Hospital Life in the Confederate Army of Tennessee from the Battle of Shiloh to the End of the War. She moved to Birmingham, where she became a teacher. She never married.
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