Dr. Mary Walker's Civil War

Dr. Mary Walker's Civil War
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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages : 345
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ISBN-10 : 9781493036103
ISBN-13 : 1493036106
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Book Synopsis Dr. Mary Walker's Civil War by : Theresa Kaminski

Download or read book Dr. Mary Walker's Civil War written by Theresa Kaminski and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-06-01 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “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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