The Confederate government assigned six surgeons to her staff. Ten short days after the First Battle of Bull Run, Sally Tompkins opened the Robertson Hospital (she would hear of no other name for it) to care for wounded soldiers from the battlefield. It was, and the capacity of the house was thereby increased to hold 25 beds. Robertson insisted that the furniture they had moved upstairs be rearranged and used. The furniture was moved upstairs, and cots were assembled on the first floor. James Episcopal Church to refurbish the house into a hospital. Robertson agreed, and Sally set to work preparing the building, using her substantial inheritance from her father as well as donations from her lady friends at St. Miss Tompkins wanted to help, and asked her friend Judge John Robertson if she could convert a large home he owned in the downtown area into a private hospital. President Jefferson Davis appealed to the citizens of Richmond to absorb this multitude of injured by opening their homes to the soldiers and establishing private hospitals. Some warned of high casualties, but no one actually believed it. The first battle of the conflict – the First Battle of Bull Run – took place on Jand was expected by the people of both sides to decide the war quickly. When the Civil War began, Sally Tompkins was 28 years old she was a petite woman, less than five feet tall. James Episcopal Church and made the acquaintance of Judge John Robertson. Her father died when Sally was only five years old, after which Sally and her mother moved to Richmond, where they joined St. Sally Louisa Tompkins was born on Novemat the Poplar Grove estate in Mathews County, Virginia to a family of wealth and rich military history, dating back to the American Revolution when her grandfather served under General George Washington. Above the center panel is a picture of the Robertson Hospital, and below are scenes depicting Captain Tompkins caring for wounded soldiers. Image: Sally Tompkins Stained Glass Windowĭepicts Tompkins with her medical bag around her waist and a Bible in her hand with the Angel of Mercy to guide her.
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