Katherine Prescott Wormeley 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".
Katherine Prescott Wormeley, c. 1861–1865
Picture from the Brady-Handy Collection misidentified in one source as the "New York Police" Commissioners. In fact it is of the United States Sanitary Commission. From left to right: Dr. William Van Buren, George T. Strong, Commission President Henry Whitney Bellows, Dr. Cornelius R. Agnew, and Dr. Oliver Wolcott Gibbs.