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Dr. Mary Walker's Civil War - One Woman's Journey to the Medal of Honor and the Fight for Women's Rights (Paperback) Loot Price: R404
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Dr. Mary Walker's Civil War - One Woman's Journey to the Medal of Honor and the Fight for Women's Rights (Paperback)

Theresa Kaminski

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"I will always be somebody." This assertion, a startling one from a nineteenth-century woman, drove the life of Dr. Mary Edwards Walker, the only American woman ever to receive the Medal of Honor. President Andrew Johnson issued the award in 1865 in recognition of the incomparable medical service Walker rendered during the Civil War. Yet few people today know anything about the woman so well-known--even notorious--in her own lifetime. Theresa Kaminski shares a different way of looking at the Civil War, through the eyes of a woman confident she could make a contribution equal to that of any man. She takes readers into the political cauldron of the nation's capital in wartime, where Walker was a familiar if notorious figure. Mary Walker's relentless pursuit of gender and racial equality is key to understanding her commitment to a Union victory in the Civil War. Her role in the women's suffrage movement became controversial and the US Army stripped Walker of her medal, only to have the medal reinstated posthumously in 1977.

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Imprint: The Lyons Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: May 2022
Authors: Theresa Kaminski
Dimensions: 230 x 153 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 978-1-4930-6642-1
Categories: Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Military history
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Military history
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
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LSN: 1-4930-6642-0
Barcode: 9781493066421

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