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Mary Edwards Walker : above and beyond
- Title
- Mary Edwards Walker : above and beyond / Dale L. Walker.
- Author
- Walker, Dale L.
- Publication
- New York : Forge, 2005.
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Details
- Description
- 221 pages : illustrations; 20 cm.
- Summary
- "Mary Edwards Walker (1832-1919) defied the conventions of her era. Born and raised on a farm in Oswego, New York, Walker became one of a handful of female physicians in the nation - and became a passionate believer in the rights of women." "Despite the derision of her contemporaries, Walker championed freedom of dress. She wore slacks - or "bloomers," as they were popularly known - rather than the corsets and voluminous ground-dragging petticoats and dresses she believed were unhygienic and injurious to health. She lectured and campaigned for women's suffrage and for prohibition, and against tobacco, traditional male-dominated marriage vows, and any issue involving the subordination of her sex." "From the outset of the Civil War, Walker volunteered her services as a physician. Despite almost universal opposition from army commanders and field surgeons, Walker served at Manassas, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Chickamauga, and other bloody theaters of the war. She ministered to wounded and maimed soldiers and civilians on both sides of the conflict. Captured by Confederates near Chattanooga in 1864, she served four months in a Southern prison hellhole, where she nursed and tended to wounded prisoners of war." "For her services in the war, in 1865 Mary Edwards Walker was awarded the Medal of Honor, becoming the only woman in American history to receive the nation's highest award for military valor."--BOOK JACKET.
- Series Statement
- The American heroes series
- Uniform Title
- American heroes series (New York, N.Y.)
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-211) and index.
- ISBN
- 0765310651
- LCCN
- 2004030227
- OCLC
- ocm57349050
- SCSB-5186976
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries