Dr. Mary Walker's Civil War: One Woman's Journey to the Medal

Dr. Mary Walker's Civil War: One Woman's Journey to the Medal of Honor and the Fight for Women's Rights

â€œI will always be somebody.â€

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 nationâ€™s capital in wartime, where Walker was a familiar if notorious figure. Mary Walkerâ€™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 womenâ€™s suffrage movement became controversial and the US Army stripped Walker of her medal, only to have the medal reinstated in 1977.
Country USA
Brand Stackpole Books
Manufacturer Lyons Press
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2020-06-01
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781493036097

Dr. Mary Walker's Civil War: One Woman's Journey to the Medal of Honor and the Fight for Women's Rights