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 ...

Dr. Mary Edwards Walker is a figure of ... With the onset of the American Civil War, Walker volunteered to serve in the Union Army. Initially rejected as a surgeon because of her gender, she ...

We have previously met Mary Edwards Walker briefly in another ... When the Civil War began, Dr. Walker travelled to Washington, where she volunteered as a Union nurse in a temporary hospital. It was ...