Katherine Prescott Wormeley (January 14, 1830[1] – August 4, 1908) was a nurse in the American Civil War, author, editor, and translator of French language literary works. Her first name is frequently misspelled as "Katharine".
Biography
Born to Admiral Ralph Randolph Wormeley and Caroline Preble[2] in Ipswich,[3]Suffolk,[4]England, the daughter of a naval officer, Katherine Prescott Wormeley emigrated to the United States at a young age.
Katherine Prescott Wormeley died on August 4, 1908, at her summer home in Jackson, New Hampshire. She is buried in the Island Cemetery in Newport, Rhode Island.
She also published The U. S. Sanitary Commission (Boston, 1863). A volume of her letters from the headquarters of the Commission with the Army of the Potomac during the peninsular campaign in 1862 was published as Letters from Headquarters during the Peninsular Campaign. The Other Side of War was published in 1888, and Life of Balzac in 1892.[3][4]
George M. Fredrickson (1965/1993), The Inner Civil War: Northern Intellectuals and the Crisis of the Union, reprint with new preface, Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press.