Mary Edwards Walker was born in 1832 in Oswego, New York. In 1855 she received her M.D. from Syracuse Medical College. She was the only female surgeon to serve in the Civil War and was captured by ...

Dr. Mary Walker is a remarkable woman. During the [Civil] war she rendered great service to the Union army in the hospitals of the West. She asked no compensation for her work and received none. It ...

Mary Edwards Walker was the youngest of seven in an unconventional family that valued equal education ... With the onset of the American Civil War, Walker volunteered to serve in the Union Army.