Sally Louisa Tompkins (November 9, 1833 – July 26, 1916) was a humanitarian, nurse, and philanthropist who privately sponsored a hospital to treat soldiers wounded in the American Civil War. When Confederate President Jefferson Davis instituted regulations requiring military hospitals be under military command, he commissioned Tompkins as a captain so that she could continue her work. She was the only woman officially commissioned as an officer in the Confederate States Army.[1][2]
References[]
- ↑ Maggiano, Ron. "Captain Sally Tompkins: Angel of the Confederacy". Organization of American Historians Magazine of History Winter 2002 issue. http://www.oah.org/pubs/magazine/publichistory/maggiano.html. Retrieved August 2, 2009.
- ↑ "Sally L. Tompkins". Ohio State University eHistory. http://ehistory.osu.edu/world/PeopleView.cfm?PID=77. Retrieved August 2, 2009.
- Faust, Patricia L. (ed (1986). The Historical Times Encyclopedia of the Civil War. Harper Collins. ISBN 0-06-181261-7.
- "Sally Louisa Tompkins. 1833-1916". Shotgun's Home of the American Civil War. http://www.civilwarhome.com/tompkinsbio.htm.
External links[]
- Robertson Hospital Register Collection a database of 1,329 entries of Civil War patients admitted to the hospital from 1861 to 1865, from the collection of the VCU Libraries