Sally Louisa Tompkins | |
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| Born | November 9, 1833 |
| Died | July 25, 1916 (aged 82) |
| Occupation(s) | Confederate States Army medical captain and nurse |
| Relatives | Clementina Tompkins (niece) |
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Sally Louisa Tompkins (November 9, 1833 – July 25, 1916) was a Confederate nurse and the first woman to have been formally inducted into an army in American history. She may have been the only woman officially commissioned in the Confederate Army.[1] 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. She has been remembered as the "Angel of the Confederacy".[2]
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