Mary Edwards Walker : above and beyond
Record details
- ISBN: 9780765310651
- ISBN: 0765310651
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Physical Description:
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221 pages ; 20 cm. - Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Forge, ©2005.
Content descriptions
General Note: | "A Tom Doherty Associates book." |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-211) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 1. Bunker Hill Farm -- 2. Blackwell -- 3. Seneca Falls -- Other Pioneers of Womens' Rights -- 4. Medicine -- 5. Eccentric -- 6. What God Hath Joined -- 7. Orator -- 8. The Lines Are Drawn -- 9. Washington, 1861 -- Medicine and the Union Army -- 10. Indiana Hospital -- 11. Army of the Potomac -- Disease, Wounds & Treatments -- 12. Fredericksburg -- 13. Washington, 1863 -- 14. Tennessee -- 15. Spy -- 16. Castle Thunder -- 17. Louisville -- 18. The Medal -- Mary Walker's Medal of Honor Citation -- 19. Post-War -- 20. Hard Times -- Dr. Mary's Prescriptions -- 21. Last Battle. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Kirtland Community College Library | R 154 .W18 W35 2005 | 30775305553027 | General Collection | Available | - |
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Mary Edwards Walker : Above and Beyond
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 unhygenic and injurious to health. She lectured and campaigned for woman's suffrage and for prohibition, and against tobacco, traditional male-dominated marriage vows, and any issue involving the sublimation 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 tendedto 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.