Sally Louisa Tompkins (November 9, 1833 – July 26, 1916) was a humanitarian, nurse, and philanthropist. She is best-remembered for privately sponsoring a hospital in Richmond, Virginia to treat soldiers wounded in the American Civil War. Under her supervision, although little was known about the cause of infections, her insistence on cleanliness is said to have been a major key to the lowemortality rate of any such military hospital, Union Confederate, during the Civil War.Whatever her devotion and work earned the label "Angel of the Confederacy".
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| - Sally Louisa Tompkins (November 9, 1833 – July 26, 1916) was a humanitarian, nurse, and philanthropist. She is best-remembered for privately sponsoring a hospital in Richmond, Virginia to treat soldiers wounded in the American Civil War. Under her supervision, although little was known about the cause of infections, her insistence on cleanliness is said to have been a major key to the lowemortality rate of any such military hospital, Union Confederate, during the Civil War.Whatever her devotion and work earned the label "Angel of the Confederacy".
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| - Sally Louisa Tompkins (November 9, 1833 – July 26, 1916) was a humanitarian, nurse, and philanthropist. She is best-remembered for privately sponsoring a hospital in Richmond, Virginia to treat soldiers wounded in the American Civil War. Under her supervision, although little was known about the cause of infections, her insistence on cleanliness is said to have been a major key to the lowemortality rate of any such military hospital, Union Confederate, during the Civil War.Whatever her devotion and work earned the label "Angel of the Confederacy".
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