Cumming, Kate:

$3,500 · Offered by William Reese Company

A JOURNAL OF HOSPITAL LIFE IN THE CONFEDERATE ARMY OF TENNESSEE FROM THE BATTLE OF SHILOH TO THE END OF THE WAR: WITH SKETCHES OF LIFE AND CHARACTER, AND BRIEF NOTICES OF CURRENT EVENTS DURING THAT ... "By far the fullest and most informative of narratives of the Confederate women who served as nurses" - IN TALL COTTON.A very scarce and reliable account of Civil War hospital service. The author, Kate Cumming, was a native of Scotland who emigrated to Alabama. She left home to offer her services to the sick and wounded in April 1862, and served in hospitals in Alabama, Tennessee, and Georgia for the remainder of the conflict. This copy appears to have been owned by the family of Confederate general Cullen A. Battle; the name "M.J. Battle" is inscribed several times, and a long pencil note on the rear blank is attributed to a "Cullen G. Battle" (maybe Cullen Garrett Battle, b. Whitakers, N.C. 1870?). Dated July 19, 1887, in Whitakers, Battle passionately echoes the myth of the lost cause (perhaps influenced by his relative Cullen A., who returned to Alabama and North Carolina after the war and fought against Reconstruction efforts): "How horrible is war! I hope I will never live through one, and how cruel and heartless were the mean low life yankees. They will yet reap a just punishment for the cruelty I hope. May all the true hearted and brave southern soldiers who fought so bravely and earnestly have ever lasting joy is my wish now & always. - Cullen G. Battle."A rare and imp

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