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

Dr. Mary Edwards Walker, the only American woman ever to receive the Medal of Honor, was a nineteenth-century woman who drove her life to pursue gender and racial equality. Kaminski's book shares a different perspective of the Civil War through the eyes of a woman confident she could make a contribution equal to any man. Walker's relentless pursuit of equality led her to become a controversial figure in the womens suffrage movement, and the US Army stripped her of her medal, only to have it reinstated in 1977.

Format: Hardback
Length: 336 pages
Publication date: 28 January 2021
Publisher: Stackpole Books

“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.

Weight: 622g
Dimension: 163 x 235 x 27 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781493036097