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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 (Hardcover)
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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 (Hardcover)
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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. 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. This part of the story 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 in 1977.
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