"[B]y far the fullest and most informative of narratives of the Confederate women who served as nurses" (In Tall Cotton). Cumming responded to calls for volunteers and worked as a field nurse from 1862 through the end of the war. "She describes with unusual realism hospital life and scenes, the horrors of amputations..., pathetic cases of gangrene, the difficulties of securing proper food for patients, and frequent moving of hospitals to keep out of reach of the enemy...As a realistic description of the Confederate hospital service, this journal is of first-rate importance" (Coulter p.61).
Digital facsimile from U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.