Kate Cumming

Kate Cumming (1830 – June 5, 1909) was a Confederate Civil War nurse.

Early life Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, her family emigrated to the United States when Cumming was young, and settled in Mobile, Alabama. At the outbreak of the Civil War, Cumming's mother and two sisters left for England, leaving Cumming behind with her father and brother. She was inspired to serve by Florence Nightingale as well as Reverend Benjamin M. Miller, who called women specifically to aid the Confederacy.

"I could fill whole people with descriptions of the scenes I had," wrote Cumming of her battlefield experience. In 1874, she moved to Birmingham, Alabama, with her father, where she worked with a teacher and was an active member of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. She died in Birmingham on June 5, 1909. She is buried in Georgia.