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Sally Louisa Tompkins: "Captain Sally"
Born into a wealthy and altruistic family in coastal Mathews County, Virginia, in 1833, Sally Louisa Tompkins was destined for a life of philanthropy.
Sally
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Although they had no formal nursing directors, the Southern armies relied
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Captain Sally Louisa Tompkins, C.S.A., 1833 - 1916
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VIRGINIA DIVISION PRESENTS CAPTAIN SALLY TOMPKINS AWARD
Virginia Division President Mrs. John W. Lougheed presented the Division's Captain Sally Tompkins Award to Cadet Stephanie Peterson on April 11, 2003, in Staunton, Va.
Sally Louisa Tompkins Biography Page
Born in "PoplarGrove,"Mathews City., Va., 9 Nov. 1833, after her husband's death, Sally's mother moved the family to Richmond, where Sally lived at the outbreak of civil war.
Tompkins,
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Born in Poplar Grove, Mathews county, Virginia, on November 9, 1833, Sally Tompkins came from a wealthy family. She devoted most of her time and energies to philanthropic undertakings.
Offers vital stats and a biography of the Confederate nurse and philanthropist who founded Robertson Hospital in Richmond during the Civil War.
Captain Sally Tompkins Chapter #2494
We are proud to honor such a caring and inspirational lady by naming our UDC Chapter, which was chartered the 17th day of March 1985, The Captain Sally Tompkins Chapter #2494.
Small private hospital financially subsidized by Confederate government. In home of Judge John Robertson. Northwest corner of 3rd and Main Streets.
Taylor, Mrs. Fielding Lewis, “Capt. Sallie Tompkins,” Confederate Veteran, Volume 24 (1916), p. 521-524
Sally Louisa Tompkins (Captain Sally)
SERVICE RECORD: Opened Robertson Hospital in Richmond, Virginia, on August 1, 1861. Commissioned captain of cavalry on September 9, 1861. Ceased operating the hospital on June 13, 1865.
Tompkins, Sally Louisa (biography)
Her Heritage: A Biographical Encyclopedia of Famous American Women; December 20, 1995; McHenry, Robert (ed.)
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What's in a Name? - TML on the MCV Campus - VCU Libraries
The Tompkins-McCaw Library is named in honor of Sally Lousia Tompkins, Christopher Tompkins, James McCaw Tompkins, James Brown McCaw, and Walter Drew McCaw.
Welcome to Kingston Parish, Mathews, VA
... A monument to Elizabeth and to her younger sister, Captain Sally Tompkins,
CSA (the
first woman ever commissioned an officer in an American Army), today stands
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WorldNetDaily: The women warriors quiz
What's the big fuss about women fighting wars next to men? This is one of those hot-button issues that has folks lobbing verbal grenades at each other across a vast ideological divide.
November 3, 2002
St. James’s Episcopal Church
The Rev. Randolph Marshall Hollerith
... Another Mathews resident, Captain Sally Tompkins, was appointed the only female Confederate officer by President Jefferson Davis. ...
Mathews County Historical Society
The Tompkins Cottage, museum and headquarters of the Mathews County Historical Society, is believed to be the oldest frame structure in the Courthouse area.
Sally Louisa Tompkins was born into a life of leisure on a plantation
in
Mathews County in 1833.
Southern ladies and their efforts in the American Civil War
Author: Kassandra Calhoun
Published on: March 9, 1999
GG - American Women and the Military - page 3
... Sally Tompkins turned her home in Richmond Virginia into a hospital
and was made
a captain in the Confederate army so she could continue her work when all
...
As a result of the Duke bibliography Women and the Civil War, we consistantly receive requests from students and teachers who would like to see primary sources on this topic available to th em via the Internet.
Women and the Civil War - Resources at Duke
Confederate Veteran Papers, 1786-1933. Nashville, Tn. Correspondence, unpublished articles, and other materials written for a periodical published between 1893 and 1932, includes information on the prison experience of women in Kansas City; Sally Tompkins, Capt. C.S.A;
Women In Military Service For America Memorial
... Miss Sally Tompkins of Richmond, Virginia, used her own ... by commissioned
officers,
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Crossing the Threshold: The Roles of Elite Southern White Women in the American Civil War
Sally Tompkins, also from a well-respected family, nursed thirteen hundred men at an infirmary she started in Richmond. President Jefferson Davis honored her with the rank of captain in the Confederate army.
Sally Louisa Tompkins - appointed captain of cavalry, making her the only woman to hold a commission in the Confederate States Army
... Visitors will see the most famous appointment of a Southern woman:
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