I came across Kate's diary, an edited memoir she published very shortly after the war. In her book she included a poem that she claimed was written by her mother, shortly after the Battle of Seven Pines, (I believe that was the battle). Both Kate and her mother were Scottish immigrants, but strong Confederates (even though neither supported slavery).

Kate was a marvelous intellect; eloquent, occasionally humorous and deeply religious. Thankfully she left us her most personal thoughts on the war and her experience as a battle-front, hospital nurse in her book, Kate: The Journal of a Confederate Nurse.