Thanks. Kate's name seemed to ring a bell when I saw it on YouTube.

I'm an Ole Miss alum (to the eternal embarrassment of my family in Baton Rouge). Ole Miss was a confederate hospital during the late unpleasantness and probably housed some of Kate's patients at some point in 1862. An internet biography mentions her working in nearby Corinth and Okolona.

There is a confederate cemetery in a quiet corner of campus, a mass grave really, surrounded by a low wall. The cemetery probably hosts some of Kate's patients, too. "For our sons we have left here in trust to your keeping..." On nice days Michelle would take our toddler daughter to the cemetery to play. Michelle would sit in the entrance and study, and the wall kept daughter from wandering off. I always imagined that the soldiers enjoyed watching a kid play.
- Phil