{"id":1076,"date":"2017-11-15T13:53:43","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T20:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1076"},"modified":"2018-01-03T10:09:45","modified_gmt":"2018-01-03T17:09:45","slug":"cumming-kate-1835-1909","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1076","title":{"rendered":"CUMMING, KATE, 1835-1909"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nurse, teacher. Born&#8211;Edinburgh, Scotland, 1835. Parents&#8211; David and Jessie Cummings. Emigrated to\u00a0Mobile with her family in the 1840&#8217;s. Went to Corinth, Mississippi, to help nurse Confederate soldiers after the Battle of Shiloh, and in August 1862 volunteered to work as a nurse with the Army of the Tennessee under its medical director Dr. Samuel Stout.\u00a0 Appointed\u00a0 a &#8220;matron&#8221; (hospital supervisor) in the Confederate Medical Department and\u00a0served at Confederate hospitals for the duration of the war. Moved to Birmingham with her father in 1874;\u00a0 gave music lessons and\u00a0taught school there.\u00a0 During her years as a nurse kept a diary which is a very important source for information on women and medical service in the Confederate Army.\u00a0 Died June 5, 1909.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Notable American Women, Vol, 1; Biographical Dictionary of Southern Authors; and\u00a0 Living Female Authors of the South.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Gleanings from Southland. Birmingham, Ala.; Roberts &amp; Son, 1895. (The same material has been printed under three different titles; A Journal of Hospital Life in the Confederate Army of Tennessee, The Journal of Kate Cumming, and Kate; the Journal of a Confederate Nurse.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Nurse, teacher. Born&#8211;Edinburgh, Scotland, 1835. Parents&#8211; David and Jessie Cummings. Emigrated to\u00a0Mobile with her family in the 1840&#8217;s. Went to Corinth, Mississippi, to help nurse Confederate soldiers after the Battle of Shiloh, and in August 1862 volunteered to work as a nurse with the Army of the Tennessee under its medical director Dr. Samuel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-c","category-authors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1076"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7278,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076\/revisions\/7278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}