Mary Walker Mary Edward Walker was a strong, brave woman. She would move from bloody battlefields to educational colleges. She was a very important person for being the only woman to be awarded lots of things.
Mary Edwards Walker was born on November 26, 1832, in Oswego, New York. She was born into an eight family household. Alva and Vesta raised them as very devoted Christians. As children they would have to help their father doing hard labor on their farm (Walker 2004). Mary went to a local school ran by her parents. Then she continued her education in a seminary in Fulton, New York, but left there in 1852 to teach. After two years Mary wanted to become a doctor instead.
When she grew older Mary would go to Syracuse Medical College in 1855 …show more content…
Then Mary and Albert separated in 1859 and divorced ten years later. After the civil war started Mary started volunteering as a nurse. After a while she returned to New York City to go to New York Hygeio-Theriputic College, but soon returned to the war. Now she would have to be both on the battlefields and in the tent hospitals in Virginia. When she relocated in 1863 to Tennessee, she was selected to be an assistant surgeon in the army. A year later dressed in full uniform, she accidentally walked into a group of Rebel soldiers south of the Georgia-Tennessee border. The Rebels commanding officer, General Daniel Harvey Hill, ordered her to be sent to Richmond as a prisoner. After several months she was released, and she quickly returned to Washington. In fall of 1864, she received a contract as an acting assistant surgeon with the Ohio 52nd Infantry (Walker, 2001). Mary began supervising a hospital for women prisoners and after that an orphanage. She then retired from her supervisor job in 1864. She was the first woman to receive the Medal of Honor D. A. (2014, May 26). Mary Walker is still the only woman that has ever received the “Medal of Honor” (Walker, 2016). After the war, she gave lectures on women's dress reform, women's suffrage, temperance, and health care. She joined other leaders of the women's rights movement, such as Susan B. Anthony and
Mary Edwards Walker was born on November 26, 1832, in Oswego, New York. She was born into an eight family household. Alva and Vesta raised them as very devoted Christians. As children they would have to help their father doing hard labor on their farm (Walker 2004). Mary went to a local school ran by her parents. Then she continued her education in a seminary in Fulton, New York, but left there in 1852 to teach. After two years Mary wanted to become a doctor instead.
When she grew older Mary would go to Syracuse Medical College in 1855 …show more content…
Then Mary and Albert separated in 1859 and divorced ten years later. After the civil war started Mary started volunteering as a nurse. After a while she returned to New York City to go to New York Hygeio-Theriputic College, but soon returned to the war. Now she would have to be both on the battlefields and in the tent hospitals in Virginia. When she relocated in 1863 to Tennessee, she was selected to be an assistant surgeon in the army. A year later dressed in full uniform, she accidentally walked into a group of Rebel soldiers south of the Georgia-Tennessee border. The Rebels commanding officer, General Daniel Harvey Hill, ordered her to be sent to Richmond as a prisoner. After several months she was released, and she quickly returned to Washington. In fall of 1864, she received a contract as an acting assistant surgeon with the Ohio 52nd Infantry (Walker, 2001). Mary began supervising a hospital for women prisoners and after that an orphanage. She then retired from her supervisor job in 1864. She was the first woman to receive the Medal of Honor D. A. (2014, May 26). Mary Walker is still the only woman that has ever received the “Medal of Honor” (Walker, 2016). After the war, she gave lectures on women's dress reform, women's suffrage, temperance, and health care. She joined other leaders of the women's rights movement, such as Susan B. Anthony and