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Sally Louisa Tompkins
Sally Louisa Tompkins (November 9, 1833 – July 26, 1916) was a humanitarian, nurse, and philanthropist. Many believe that she was also the only woman officially commissioned in the Confederate Army.〔http://www.womensmemorial.org/Education/WHM982.html#2〕 She is best-remembered for privately sponsoring a hospital in Richmond, Virginia to treat soldiers wounded in the American Civil War. Under her supervision she had the lowest death rate of any hospital Union or Confederate, during the Civil War.Whatever her devotion and work she has been remembered as the "Angel of the Confederacy".〔http://mason.gmu.edu/~rmaggian/hist697/finalproject/sallytompkins.html〕
==Youth, family==
Sally Tompkins was born at Poplar Grove in the Tidewater Region of Virginia's Middle Peninsula. She was the youngest of Colonel Christopher Tompkins' eight children. Colonel Tompkins was an American Revolutionary War veteran, and he eventually became a very wealthy merchant, doing business in Mathews County, Norfolk, and Richmond, VA. In August 16, 1838, Colonel Tompkins died, leaving behind his second wife Maria Patterson Tompkins and their surviving children.〔http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=43526092〕 Sally was almost five years old at the time.
Sally’s older sister, Elizabeth, had been active in restoring the local Christ Church, an Episcopal church that had fallen into disrepair.〔http://kpepiscopal.org/parish_history〕 Elizabeth and Sally were very close to each other. Sally was devastated when three of her sisters (Martha, Harriet, and Elizabeth) died only a few weeks apart due to a local epidemic in 1842.〔''The Lady With The Milk White Hands'' By Shirley E. Gillespie〕 Despite a difficult childhood, Sally found a means of helping others through nursing the sick in the local community free or slave.
Sally’s early years are difficult to piece together since many records have not survived. What is known is that Sally, her mother, and her surviving sister, Maria, had left Poplar Grove and lived in Norfolk from 1849-1852. While in Norfolk, Sally and her sister studied at the Norfolk Female Institute.Then in January 1854, Sally, her mother, and Maria moved to Richmond, VA. Sally’s mother died a few months later. Since the Tompkins family had done business in Richmond for many years, Sally and her sister were welcome with open arms. They rented rooms in the city not knowing that Richmond would soon become the epicenter of a war.
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