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'''Mary Edwards Walker, M.D.''' (November 26, 1832 &ndash; February 21, 1919), commonly referred to as '''Dr. Mary Walker''', was an American [[Abolitionism in the United States|abolitionist]], [[prohibition]]ist, [[prisoner of war]] and [[Surgery|surgeon]].<ref>{{Cite book|title=Mary Walker wears the pants : the true story of the doctor, reformer, and Civil War hero|last=Harness|first=Cheryl|date=2013|publisher=Albert Whitman & Co|isbn=9780807549902|location=Chicago|oclc=794306404}}</ref> She is the only woman to ever receive the [[Medal of Honor]].<ref>{{cite news|title=The Case of Dr. Walker, Only Woman to Win (and Lose) the Medal of Honor|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1977/06/04/archives/the-case-of-dr-walker-only-woman-to-win-and-lose-the-medal-of-honor.html|access-date=January 6, 2018 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=June 4, 1977}}</ref>

In 1855, she earned her medical degree at Syracuse Medical College in [[New York (state)|New York]],<ref name=":3">{{Cite book|title=Amazons to Fighter Pilots - A Biographical Dictionary of Military Women (Volume Two)|last=Pennington|first=Reina|publisher=Greenwood Press|year=2003|isbn=0-313-32708-4|location=Westport, Connecticut|pages=474–475}}</ref> married and started a medical practice. She attempted to join the Union Army at the outbreak of the [[American Civil War]] and was denied. She served as a surgeon at a temporary hospital in [[Washington, D.C.|Washington, D.C]]. before being hired by Union Forces and assigned to [[Army of the Cumberland]] and later the [[52nd Ohio Infantry Regiment|52nd Ohio Infantry]], becoming the first female surgeon in the US Army.<ref name="ReferenceA">{{cite journal|last1=Spiegel|first1=Allen |last2=Suskind |first2=Peter |title=Mary Edwards Walker, M.D. A Feminist Physician a Century Ahead of Her Time|journal=Journal of Community Health|date=June 1, 1996|volume=21|issue=3 |pages=211–35 |doi=10.1007/BF01558000 |pmid=8726211 |s2cid=35944111 }}</ref> She was captured by Confederate forces<ref name=":3" /> after crossing enemy lines to treat wounded civilians and arrested as a spy. She was sent as a prisoner of war to [[Richmond, Virginia]] until released in a prisoner exchange.

After the war, she was approved for the [[Medal of Honor]], for her efforts to treat the wounded in battle and across enemy lines during the Civil War. Notably, the award was not expressly given for gallantry in action at that time, and in fact was the only military decoration during the Civil War. Walker is the only woman to receive the medal and one of only eight civilians to receive it. Her name was deleted from the Army Medal of Honor Roll in 1917 (along with over 900 other, male MOH recipients); however, it was restored in 1977.<ref name=":3" /> After the war, she was a writer and lecturer supporting the [[Women's suffrage in the United States|women's suffrage movement]] until her death in 1919.

==Early life and education==
Mary Edwards Walker was born in the [[Oswego (town), New York|Town of Oswego]], New York, on November 26, 1832, the daughter of Alvah (father) and Vesta (mother) Walker. She was the youngest of seven children: she had five sisters and one brother. Alvah and Vesta raised both their son and their daughters in a progressive manner that was revolutionary for the time. Their nontraditional parenting nurtured Mary's spirit of independence and sense of justice that she actively demonstrated throughout her life. While they were devoted Christians, the Walkers were "free thinkers" who raised their children to question the regulations and restrictions of various denominations.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title = Dr. Mary Walker: American Radical, 1832–1919|last = Harris|first = Sharon M.|publisher = Rutgers University Press|year = 2009|isbn = 978-0-8135-4611-7|location = Piscataway, NJ}}</ref> The Walker parents also demonstrated non-traditional gender roles to their children regarding sharing work around the farm: Vesta often participated in heavy labor while Alvah took part in general household chores.<ref name=":0" /> Walker worked on her family farm as a child. She did not wear women's clothing during farm labor because she considered it too restricting. Her mother reinforced her views that corsets and tight lacings were unhealthy.<ref>Graf, 2010, page 11</ref>

Her elementary education consisted of attendance at the local school that her parents had started. The Walkers were determined that their daughters be as well-educated as their son, so they founded the first free schoolhouse in Oswego in the late 1830s.<ref name=":0" /> After finishing primary school, Mary and two of her older sisters attended [[Falley Seminary]] in Fulton, New York.<ref name=":0" /> Falley was not only an institution of higher learning, but a place that emphasized modern social reform in gender roles, education, and hygiene.<ref name=":0" /> Its ideologies and practices further cemented Mary's determination to defy traditional feminine standards on a principle of injustice. In her free time, Mary would pore over her father's medical texts on anatomy and physiology; her interest in medicine is attributable to her exposure to medical literature at an early age.<ref name=":0" /> As a young woman, she taught at a school in Minetto, New York, eventually earning enough money to pay her way through Syracuse Medical College, where she graduated with honors as a medical doctor in 1855, the only woman in her class.<ref name=":0" />

She married a fellow medical school student, Albert Miller, on November 16, 1855, shortly before she turned 23.<ref name=":0" /> Walker wore a short skirt with trousers underneath, refused to include "obey" in her vows, and retained her last name, all characteristic of her obstinate nonconformity.<ref name=":0" /> They set up a joint practice in [[Rome, New York]].<ref>Graf, 2010, p. 91</ref> The practice did not flourish, as female physicians were generally not trusted or respected at that time.<ref name=Walker26-27>Walker, 2010, pp. 26–27</ref> They later divorced, on account of Miller's infidelity.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|title = Yankee Women: Gender battles in the Civil War|last = Leonard|first = Elizabeth D.|publisher = W.W. Norton & Company|year = 1994|isbn = 0-393-31372-7|location = New York}}</ref>

Walker briefly attended Bowen Collegiate Institute (later named [[Lenox College]]) in [[Hopkinton, Iowa]], in 1860, until she was suspended for refusing to resign from the school's debating society, which until she joined had been all male.

==Dress reform==
[[File:Dr. Mary Walker (cropped).jpg|thumb|Walker photographed by [[Charles Milton Bell|C. M. Bell]]]]
Inspired by her parents' novel standard of dressing for health purposes, Walker was infamous for contesting traditional female wardrobe. In 1871, she wrote, "The greatest sorrows from which women suffer to-day are those physical, moral, and mental ones, that are caused by their unhygienic manner of dressing!"<ref name=":1" /> She strongly opposed women's long skirts with numerous petticoats, not only for their discomfort and their inhibition to the wearer's mobility but for their collection and spread of dust and dirt. As a young woman, she began experimenting with various skirt-lengths and layers, all with men's trousers underneath. By 1861, her typical ensemble included trousers with suspenders under a knee-length dress with a tight waist and full skirt.<ref name=":1" />

While encouraged by her family, Walker's wardrobe choices were often met with criticism. Once, while a schoolteacher, she was assaulted on her way home by a neighboring farmer and a group of boys, who chased her and attacked her with eggs and other projectiles.<ref name=":0" /> Female colleagues in medical school criticized her choices, and patients often gawked at her and teased her. She nevertheless persisted in her mission to reform women's dress. Her view that women's dress should "protect the person, and allow freedom of motion and circulation, and not make the wearer a slave to it" made her commitment to dress reform as great as her zeal for abolitionism.<ref name=":2" /> She famously wrote to the women's journal, ''[[The Sibyl (journal)|The Sibyl: A Review of the Tastes, Errors, and Fashions of Society]]'', about her campaign against women's fashion, amongst other things, for its injuries to health, its expense, and its contribution to the dissolution of marriages.<ref name=":0" /> Her literature contributed to the spread of her ideas and made her a popular figure amongst other feminists and female physicians.

In 1870, Walker was arrested in New Orleans and mocked by men because she was dressed as a man. The arresting officer Mullahy twisted her arm and asked her if she had ever had sex with a man. Walker was released from custody when she was recognized at Police Court.

==American Civil War==
Walker volunteered at the outbreak of [[American Civil War]] as a surgeon – first for the Army, but was rejected because she was a woman (despite having kept a private practice for many years). She was offered the role of a nurse but declined and chose to volunteer as a surgeon for the [[Union Army]] as a civilian. The U.S. Army had no female surgeons, and at first, she was allowed to practice only as a nurse.<ref name=":3" /> During this period, she served at the [[First Battle of Bull Run]] (Manassas), July 21, 1861, and at the Patent Office Hospital in [[Washington, D.C.]] She worked as an unpaid field surgeon near the Union front lines, including at the [[Battle of Fredericksburg]] and in [[Chattanooga campaign|Chattanooga]] after the [[Battle of Chickamauga]].<ref name="auto">{{Cite book|last=Tsui|first=Bonnie|title=She Went to the Field: Women Soldiers of the Civil War|location=Guilford|publisher=TwoDot|date=2006|isbn=0762743840|page=120}}</ref> As a suffragist, she was happy to see women serving as soldiers, and alerted the press to the case of [[Frances Hook]], in Ward 2 of the Chattanooga hospital, a woman who served in the Union forces disguised as a man.<ref>Blanton, DeAnne, and Lauren M. Cook. ''They Fought Like Demons: Women Soldiers in the American Civil War''. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002, p. 96.</ref> Walker was the first female surgeon of the Union army.<ref name="auto"/> She wore men's clothing during her work, claiming it to be easier for high demands of her work.<ref name="auto"/>

In September 1862, Walker wrote to the War Department requesting employment as a spy, but her proposal was declined.<ref>National Archives, RG108, E22, M1635, Mary E. Walker to Edwin M. Stanton, September 22, 1862</ref> In September 1863, she was employed as a "Contract Acting Assistant Surgeon (civilian)" by the [[Army of the Cumberland]], becoming the first female surgeon employed by the U.S. Army Surgeon.<ref name=Walker>{{Cite book |access-date=February 11, 2010 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BIuvXw6ky1AC&q=%22Mary+Edwards+Walker%22 |author=Walker, Dale L. |title= Mary Edwards Walker: Above and Beyond |work= American Heroes Series |publisher= Macmillan |year= 2005 |isbn=978-0-7653-1065-1}}</ref> Walker was later appointed assistant surgeon of the [[52nd Ohio Infantry]]. During her service, she frequently crossed battle lines and treated civilians.

On April 10, 1864, she was captured by [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] troops, and arrested as a spy, just after she finished helping a Confederate doctor perform an amputation. She was sent to [[Castle Thunder (prison)|Castle Thunder]] in [[Richmond, Virginia|Richmond]], [[Virginia]], and remained there until August 12, 1864, when she was released as part of a [[prisoner exchange]].<ref>Massey, 1994, pages 62–63</ref> While she was imprisoned, she refused to wear the clothes provided her, said to be more "becoming of her sex". Walker was exchanged for a Confederate surgeon from Tennessee on August 12, 1864.<ref name="ReferenceA"/>

She went on to serve as supervisor of a female prison in [[Louisville, Kentucky]], and as the head of an [[orphanage]] in [[Tennessee]].<ref name=Walker/>

==Later career==
[[File:MARY E. WALKER A woman of the century (page 750 crop).jpg|thumb|Walker, c. 1870. She often wore male clothing.|alt=A black and white image of Mary Walker wearing a suit and standing facing the camera with her right hand tucked into her jacket.]]

After the war, Walker was awarded a disability pension for partial muscular atrophy suffered while she was imprisoned by the enemy. She was given $8.50 a month, beginning June 13, 1865, but in 1899 that amount was raised to $20 per month.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Spiegel|first1=Allen|last2=Suskind|first2=Peter|title=Mary Edwards Walker, M.D: A Feminist Physician a Century Ahead of Her Time|journal=Journal of Community Health|date=1 June 1996|volume=21|issue=3|pages=211–35|doi=10.1007/BF01558000|pmid=8726211|s2cid=35944111}}</ref>

She became a writer and lecturer, supporting such issues as [[health care]], [[Temperance movement|temperance]], [[women's rights]], and [[dress reform]] for women. She was frequently arrested for wearing men's clothing, and insisted on her right to wear clothing that she thought appropriate.<ref>Massey, 1994, pages 360–361</ref> She wrote two books that discussed women's rights and dress. She replied to criticism of her attire: "I don't wear men's clothes, I wear my own clothes."<ref>{{cite news|last1=Lineberry|first1=Cate|title=I Wear My Own Clothes|url=http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/12/02/i-wear-my-own-clothes/|access-date=October 22, 2015 |work=The New York Times |date=December 2, 2013}}</ref>

Walker was a member of the central woman's suffrage Bureau in Washington, and solicited funds to endow a chair for a female professor at Howard University medical school.<ref name="ReferenceA"/> She attempted to register to vote in 1871, but was turned away. The initial stance of the movement, following her lead, was to claim that women already had the right to vote, and Congress needed only to enact enabling legislation. After a number of fruitless years advocating this position, the movement promoted the adoption of a [[constitutional amendment]]. This was diametrically opposed to her position, and she fell out of favor with the movement. She continued to attend suffrage conventions and distribute her own literature, but was virtually ignored by the rest of the movement. Her penchant for wearing masculine clothing, including a top hat, only exacerbated the situation.{{clarify|date=March 2016}}<ref name=Walker/> She received a more favorable reception in England than in the United States.<ref>Massey, 1994, page 361</ref>

In 1907, Walker published "Crowning Constitutional Argument", in which she argued that some States, as well as the federal Constitution, had already granted women the right to vote. She testified on women's suffrage before committees of the [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. House of Representatives]] in 1912 and 1914.

After a long illness, Walker died at home on February 21, 1919, at the age of eighty-six.<ref>{{cite news|title=Dr. Mary Walker, Crusader, is Dead|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1919/02/23/97077779.pdf |access-date=October 22, 2015 |work=The New York Times |date=February 23, 1919}}</ref> She was buried at Rural Cemetery in [[Oswego, New York]], in a plain funeral, with an American flag draped over her casket, and wearing a black suit instead of a dress.<ref>Wilson, Scott. ''Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons'', 3d ed.: 2 (Kindle Location 49247). McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. Kindle Edition.</ref> Her death in 1919 came one year before the passage of the [[Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution]], which guaranteed women the right to vote.<ref name=Walker/>

==Honors and awards==
===Medal of Honor===
[[File:Dr Mary Edwards Walker man's top coat and hat c 1911.jpg|thumb|Walker, around 1911.]]
After the war, Walker sought a retroactive brevet or commission to validate her service. President [[Andrew Johnson]] directed Secretary of War Edwin Stanton to study the legality of the issue, and he solicited an opinion from the Army's Judge Advocate General, who determined that there was no precedent for commissioning a female, but that a "commendatory acknowledgment" could be issued in lieu of the commission. This led Johnson to personally award the Medal of Honor as an alternative. Thus, Walker was not formally recommended for the [[Medal of Honor]], and this unusual process may also explain why authorities overlooked her ineligibility, ironically on the grounds of lacking a commission.<ref>Sharon Harris, Dr. Mary Walker: An American Radical (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2009), pages 72–73</ref>

In 1916, the [[Congress of the United States|U.S. Congress]] created a pension act for Medal of Honor recipients, and in doing so created separate Army and Navy Medal of Honor Rolls. The Army was directed to review eligibility of prior recipients in a separate bill not related to the pension rolls, but which had been requested by the Army in order to retroactively police undesirable awards. The undesirable awards resulted from the lack of regulations on the medal; the Army had published no regulations until 1897, and the law had very few requirements, meaning that recipients could earn a medal for virtually any reason, resulting in nearly 900 awards for enlistment extensions not in combat. The Army's Medal of Honor Board deliberated from 1916 to 1917, and struck 911 names from the Army Medal of Honor Roll, including those of Dr. Mary Edwards Walker and [[Buffalo Bill|William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody]]. Both were considered ineligible for the Army Medal of Honor because 1862, 1863, and 1904 laws strictly required recipients to be officers or enlisted members. In Walker's case, she was a civilian contract surgeon and was not a commissioned officer. Nevertheless, the Medal of Honor Board perhaps discriminated against Walker because it declined to revoke the Medal of at least two other contract surgeons who were equally ineligible. One of these was Major General Leonard Wood, a former Chief of Staff of the Army who was a civilian contract surgeon in the same status as Walker when he was recommended for the award. This was known to the Medal of Honor Board, as board president General Nelson Miles had twice recommended Wood's medal and knew that he was ineligible. The disenrolled recipients were not ordered to return their medals per a recommendation from the Army Judge Advocate General, who noted that Congress did not grant the Army the jurisdiction to enforce this provision of the statute, rendering both the repossession and criminal penalties inoperative.<ref>{{cite book|first=Dwight|last= Mears |title=The Medal of Honor: The Evolution of America's Highest Military Decoration |place=Lawrence|publisher= University Press of Kansas|isbn=978-0700626656|oclc= 1032014828|pages= 57–59, 169|year= 2018 }}</ref>

Although several sources attribute President [[Jimmy Carter]] with restoring Walker's medal posthumously in 1977, this is probably incorrect, since the action was taken well below the Secretary of the Army, at the level of the Army's Assistant Secretary for Manpower and Reserve Affairs, which was acting on a recommendation from the Board for Correction of Military Records. In fact, both the Ford and Carter Administrations opposed the restoration; the Carter White House reacted with confusion to the announcement of the Board's decision.<ref>{{cite book|first=Dwight|last= Mears|title= The Medal of Honor: The Evolution of America's Highest Military Decoration|place=Lawrence|publisher= University Press of Kansas|date=2018|isbn=978-0700626656|oclc= 1032014828|page= 172}}</ref> A recent historical work documented that the Board for Correction probably exceeded its authority in making a unilateral restoration of the medal, since the Board is merely a delegation of the authority of the Secretary of the Army, and thus cannot contradict a standing law much less a law that expressly required the revocation of Walker's medal. Therefore, the decision was controversial because it raised separation of powers issues; the Board's mandate was only to correct errors or injustices within its authority, not act against the authority of public law. This very point was illustrated by the awarding of Garlin Conner's Medal of Honor in early 2018, which also originated from the Board for Correction, but instead went through the President and required a statutory waiver from Congress—seen to be a requirement because the Board lacked the authority to contravene a public law and the associated statutes of limitations.<ref>{{cite book|first=Dwight|last= Mears|title= The Medal of Honor: The Evolution of America's Highest Military Decoration|place= Lawrence|publisher= University Press of Kansas|date=2018|pages= 171, 192|isbn=978-0700626656|oclc= 1032014828}}</ref>

Walker felt that she had been awarded the Medal of Honor because she had gone into enemy territory to care for the suffering inhabitants, when no man had the courage to do so, for fear of being imprisoned.<ref name="ReferenceA"/>

====Attribution and citation====
Rank and organization: Contract Acting Assistant Surgeon (civilian), U.S. Army. Places and dates: Battle of Bull Run, July 21, 1861; Patent Office Hospital, Washington, D.C., October 1861; Chattanooga, Tennessee, following Battle of Chickamauga, September 1863; Prisoner of War, April 10, 1864 – August 12, 1864, Richmond, Virginia; Battle of Atlanta, September 1864. Entered service at: Louisville, Kentucky. Born: 26 November 1832, Oswego County, New York.

'''Citation:'''
{{poemquote|Where as it appears from official reports that Dr. Mary E. Walker, a graduate of medicine, "has rendered valuable service to the Government, and her efforts have been earnest and untiring in a variety of ways," and that she was assigned to duty and served as an assistant surgeon in charge of female prisoners at Louisville, Kentucky, upon the recommendation of Major-Generals Sherman and Thomas, and faithfully served as contract surgeon in the service of the United States, and has devoted herself with much patriotic zeal to the sick and wounded soldiers, both in the field and hospitals, to the detriment of her own health, and has also endured hardships as a prisoner of war four months in a Southern prison while acting as contract surgeon; and Whereas by reason of her not being a commissioned officer in the military service, a brevet or honorary rank cannot, under existing laws, be conferred upon her; and Whereas in the opinion of the President an honorable recognition of her services and sufferings should be made.

It is ordered, That a testimonial thereof shall be hereby made and given to the said Dr. Mary E. Walker, and that the usual medal of honor for meritorious services be given her.<ref name=AMOHW>{{cite web|access-date=February 11, 2010 |url=http://www.history.army.mil/html/moh/civwarmz.html |title=Medal of Honor recipients |work=Medal of Honor citations |publisher=[[United States Army Center of Military History]] |date=June 11, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090223063700/http://www.history.army.mil/html/moh/civwarmz.html |archive-date=February 23, 2009 }}</ref>}}

===National Women's Hall of Fame===
Walker was inducted into the [[National Women's Hall of Fame]] in 2000.

==Legacy==
During [[World War II]], a [[Liberty ship]], the [[List of Liberty ships, M|SS ''Mary Walker'']], was named for her.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.usmm.org/libertyships.html#anchor446731|title=Liberty Ships built by the United States Maritime Commission in World War II|access-date=6 October 2014}}</ref>

In 1982, the [[U.S. Postal Service]] issued a twenty-cent stamp in her honor, commemorating the anniversary of her birth.<ref name=Walker21-22>Walker, 2010, pp. 21–22</ref><ref>Graf, 2010, p. 82</ref>

The medical facilities at [[State University of New York at Oswego|SUNY Oswego]] are named in her honor (Mary Walker Health Center). On the same grounds a plaque explains her importance in the Oswego community.

There is a United States Army Reserve center named for her in Walker, Michigan.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Solano|first1=Connie|title=Courageous Women Thirty-two Short Stories|date=2010|publisher=Wheatmark|location=Tucson, Arizona|isbn=978-1604945041|page=59|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RiT7IxcFGUoC}}</ref>

The [[Whitman-Walker Clinic]] in Washington, D.C., is named in honor of Walker and the poet [[Walt Whitman]], who was a nurse in D.C. during the Civil War.<ref name=clinic>{{cite web |access-date=October 21, 2015 |url=https://www.whitman-walker.org/our-mission-values/our-history/our-namesakes/ |title=About WWH |work=Our Namesakes |publisher=Whitman-Walker Health |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150905153919/https://www.whitman-walker.org/our-mission-values/our-history/our-namesakes/ |archive-date=September 5, 2015 }}</ref>

The Mary Walker Clinic at [[Fort Irwin National Training Center]] in California is named in honor of Walker.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.irwin.amedd.army.mil/pages/medicalServices/MWC.html|title=WACH – Dr Mary Walker Center|work=army.mil|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141215232852/http://www.irwin.amedd.army.mil/pages/medicalServices/MWC.html|archive-date=2014-12-15}}</ref>

The Mary E. Walker House is a thirty-bed transitional residence run by the Philadelphia Veterans Multi-Service & Education Center for homeless women veterans.<ref>Mary E. Walker House Site http://www.pvmsec.org/index.php/services/homeless-veteran-services/the-mary-e-walker-house</ref><ref>"Dinniman, Mary E. Walker House Recognize Women in the Military," Senator Dinneman's Official Website http://www.senatordinniman.com/dinniman-mary-e-walker-house-recognize-women-in-the-military</ref>

In May 2012, a 900-pound bronze statue honoring Walker was unveiled in front of the Oswego, New York Town Hall.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Groom|first1=Debra J.|title=Statue to Dr. Mary Edwards Walker to be dedicated Saturday|url=http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2012/05/statue_to_dr_mary_edwards_walk.html|access-date=14 March 2017|work=The Post Standard|agency=syracuse.com|publisher=Advance Digital|date=May 9, 2012}}</ref>

In 2019, Walker was included in [[Hillary Clinton|Hillary]] and [[Chelsea Clinton]]'s book ''[[The Book of Gutsy Women: Favorite Stories of Courage and Resilience]]''.<ref name="ClintonClinton2019">{{cite book|author1=Hillary Rodham Clinton|author2=Chelsea Clinton|title=The Book of Gutsy Women: Favorite Stories of Courage and Resilience|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q656xgEACAAJ|date=1 October 2019|publisher=Simon and Schuster|isbn=978-1-5011-7841-2}}</ref>

==Works==
*{{Cite book |access-date=February 11, 2010 |url=https://archive.org/details/womansuffrageno00unkngoog
|quote=Mary Edwards Walker. |author=Mary Edwards Walker; United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary, Edward Thomas Taylor, Jane Addams |publisher=Government Printing Office |title= Woman suffrage, No.1: hearings before the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Sixty-second Congress, second session, statement of Dr. Mary E. Walker. February 14, 1912 |year=1912}}
*{{Cite book |access-date=February 11, 2010 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Qk4WAAAAYAAJ |title=Hit: Essays on Women's Rights |author=Walker, Mary Edwards |publisher=The American News Company |year=1871}} Reissued in paperback with a new introduction in 2003.<ref name=":2">{{cite book|author=Mary Edwards Walker M.D. (Author) |title=Hit: Essays on Women's Rights (Classics in Women's Studies): Mary Edwards Walker M.D.: 9781591020981: Amazon.com: Books |date=2003-08-01 |isbn=1591020980 }}</ref>
*{{Cite book |author=Mary Edwards Walker |title= Unmasked, or the Science of Immorality, To Gentlemen by a Woman Physician and Surgeon|year=1878}}

==Works about <span lang="en" dir="ltr">her</span>==
*Negley, Keith. ''Mary Wears What She Wants, January 15, 2019''
*DiMeo, Nate. ''Mary Walker Would Wear What She Wanted'' [http://thememorypalace.us/2015/10/mary-walker-would-wear-what-she-wanted/ The Memory Palace Podcast Episode 76], October 19, 2015. (Podcast detailing Mary Walker, her early life and accomplishments.)
*Gall-Clayton, Nancy. ''I'm Wearing My Own Clothes!'' (Full-length play commissioned and produced by Looking for Lilith Theatre Company, July 2017. [http://lookingforlilith.org/unheardoutloud/clothes/ I’m Wearing My Own Clothes!])
* Lambil, Willy & Cauvin, Raoul. ''Miss Walker'' , Dupuis 2010, is a Belgian comic book in the "Bluecoats"-series (''[[Les Tuniques Bleues]]''). The comic album portrays Mary Walker in a caricatural way as a combative feminist during the civil war.

==See also==
{{Portal|Biography|American Civil War}}
*[[Mollie Bean]]
*[[Mary Ann Bickerdyke]]
*[[Mary Ann Bickerdyke]]
* [[Malinda Blalock]]
* [[Malinda Blalock]]

Revision as of 18:15, 1 June 2022

Mary Edwards Walker
Walker with her Medal of Honor
Born(1832-11-26)November 26, 1832
Oswego, New York, U.S.
DiedFebruary 21, 1919(1919-02-21) (aged 86)
Oswego, New York, U.S.
Resting placeRural cemetery, Oswego
EducationFalley Seminary (1850–1852)
Syracuse Medical College (1853–1855)
Hygeio-Therapeutic College (1862)
OccupationSurgeon
EmployerUnited States Army
Known forReceiving the Medal of Honor during the American Civil War, was the first female U.S. Army surgeon, prohibitionist, abolitionist, first and only female Medal of Honor recipient
SpouseAlbert Miller
AwardsMedal of Honor

References

Further reading

  • Atwater, Edward C. Women Medical Doctors in the United States before the Civil War: A Biographical Dictionary. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press. 2016. ISBN 978-1580465717 OCLC 945359277
  • Bloch, Raphael S. Healers and Achievers: Physicians Who Excelled in Other Fields and the Times in Which They Lived. [Bloomington, IN]: Xlibris Corp, 2012. ISBN 1-4691-9247-0 OCLC 819323018
  • Conner, Jane Hollenbeck. Sinners, Saints, and Soldiers in Civil War Stafford. Stafford, VA: Parker Pub., 2009. ISBN 0-9708370-1-1 OCLC 430058519
  • Eggleston, Larry G. Women in the Civil War: Extraordinary Stories of Soldiers, Spies, Nurses, Doctors, Crusaders, and Others. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland and Company, Inc., Publishers, 2003. ISBN 0-7864-1493-6
  • Fitzgerald, Stephanie. Mary Walker: Civil War Surgeon and Feminist. Minneapolis, MN: Compass Point Books, 2009. ISBN 0-7565-4083-6 OCLC 244293210
  • Frank, Lisa Tendrich. Women in the American Civil War. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2008. ISBN 1-85109-600-0 OCLC 152580687
  • Goldsmith, Bonnie Zucker. Dr. Mary Edwards Walker: Civil War Surgeon & Medal of Honor Recipient. Edina, MN: ABDO Pub, 2010. ISBN 1-60453-966-6 OCLC 430736535
  • Graf, Mercedes, and Mary Edwards Walker. A Woman of Honor: Dr. Mary E. Walker and the Civil War. Gettysburg, PA: Thomas Publications, 2001. ISBN 1-57747-071-0 OCLC 48851708
  • Hall, Richard C. Women on the Civil War Battlefront. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2006. ISBN 978-0-7006-1437-0
  • Hall, Marjory. Quite Contrary: Dr. Mary Edwards Walker. New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1970. OCLC 69716
  • Harper, Judith E. Women During the Civil War: An Encyclopedia. New York: Routledge, 2004. ISBN 0-415-93723-X OCLC 51942662
  • Joinson, Carla. Civil War Doctor: The Story of Mary Edwards Walker. Greensboro, NC: Morgan Reynolds Pub., 2006. ISBN 1-59935-028-9 OCLC 71241973
  • LeClair, Mary K., Justin D. White, and Susan Keeter. Three 19th-Century Women Doctors: Elizabeth Blackwell, Mary Walker, Sarah Loguen Fraser. Syracuse, NY: Hofmann, 2007. ISBN 0-9700519-3-X OCLC 156809843
  • Massey, Mary Elizabeth. Women in the Civil War. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1994. ISBN 0-8032-8213-3
  • Mendoza, Patrick M. Extraordinary People in Extraordinary Times: Heroes, Sheroes and Villains. Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 1999. ISBN 1-56308-611-5 OCLC 632890705
  • Mikaelian, Allen, and Mike Wallace. Medal of Honor: Profiles of America's Military Heroes from the Civil War to the Present. New York: Hyperion, 2002. ISBN 0-7868-6662-4 OCLC 49698595
  • Nash, J.V. Famous Eccentric Americans. Girard, KS: Haldeman-Julius Publications, 1930. OCLC 10836948
  • Obama, Michelle. "Address at the Women in Military Service for America Memorial Center". American Rhetoric Online Speech Bank. Retrieved March 22, 2019.
  • Schroeder-Lein, Glenna R. The Encyclopedia of Civil War Medicine. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, Inc, 2008. ISBN 0-7656-1171-6 OCLC 122291324
  • Snyder, Charles McCool. Dr. Mary Walker: The Little Lady in Pants. New York: Arno Press, 1974. ISBN 0-405-06122-6 OCLC 914744
  • Tsui, Bonnie. She Went to the Field: Women Soldiers of the Civil War. Guilford, CN: TwoDot, 2006. ISBN 0-7627-4384-0
  • United States, Mary Edwards Walker, Edward T. Taylor, and Jane Addams. Woman Suffrage, No. 1: Hearings Before the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Sixty-Second Congress, Second Session, Statement of Dr. Mary E. Walker. February 14, 1912. Washington: Govt. Print. Off, 1912. OCLC 2766859
  • Walker, Dale L. Mary Edwards Walker: Above and Beyond. New York: Forge, 2005. ISBN 0-7653-1065-1 OCLC 57349050
  • Walker, Mary Edwards. Hit: Essays on Women's Rights. Amherst, NY: Humanity Books, 2003. ISBN 1-59102-098-0 OCLC 52165894
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