As the Library of Virginia’s archivists continue to catalog items in the 
collection we are often struck by the amazing stories a simple volume or piece 
of paper can hold. One recent item added to the catalog is the Robertson 
Hospital Reunion Register. Former patients reunited in Richmond in 1896 to see 
Sally Tompkins, often called the Confederacy’s Florence Nightingale .  At her 
own expense Tompkins, the only female commissioned officer in the 
Confederate military,  ran Robertson Hospital in Richmond during the Civil War 
with strict standards of hygiene and comfort. The rate of recovery there was 
remarkable. See the latest entry in this week's Out of the Box blog. 
http://www.virginiamemory.com/blogs/out_of_the_box/ 

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