Sally Louisa Tompkins

Who was Sally Louisa Tompkins?

Sally Louisa Tompkins was a humanitarian, nurse, and philanthropist. Many believe that she was also the only woman officially commissioned in the Confederate Army. 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".