Me: 'Are there any Carolinians here?'
Miss T: 'I never ask where the sick and wounded come from.'"
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| Sally Louisa Tompkins (1833-1916) |
*After the Battle of First Bull Run, Sally Louisa Tompkins outfitted an old Richmond house as a hospital at her own expense. When the government took over private hospitals, she was allowed to maintain hers. Jefferson Davis commissioned her a captain, making Tompkins the only woman known to hold military rank in the Confederacy.
