Tompkins Family
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Items related to the Tompkins family in Surry County, NC
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Surry County (N.C.)
Identifier
Sur_Tompkins
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Andrea Hawks Sloop Collection Civil War Letter
Civil War Letter from Alfred Tompkins to wife Sarah Tompkins written while he was a POW at Camp Chase (Union-operated prison camp for Confederate prisoners ) in Ohio. This was one of his last letters to home. He died from pneumonia.