{"id":929,"date":"2010-12-09T23:42:32","date_gmt":"2010-12-10T04:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/?p=929"},"modified":"2011-03-16T22:36:11","modified_gmt":"2011-03-17T03:36:11","slug":"mary-edwards-walker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/2010\/12\/09\/mary-edwards-walker\/","title":{"rendered":"1917 (Arguing for Justice) Mary Walker"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mary Edwards Walker (Library of Congress)<\/p><\/div>\n

Life & Family<\/strong>
\nPresident Andrew Johnson signed bill that authorized Medal of Honor for Walker. President Carter restored Walker’s Medal of Honor on June 10, 1977.<\/p>\n

Sources<\/strong>
\nWhile Walker published two books – Hit: Essays on Women\u2019s Rights<\/em> (1871) and Unmasked, or the Science of Immorality, To Gentlemen by a Woman Physician<\/em> (1878) \u2013 , she never wrote about her experiences as a surgeon during the Civil War. In addition, \u00a0the Mary Edwards Walker Papers<\/a> at Syracuse University contain her correspondence.\u00a0\u00a0Several books about Walker have recently been published, including Dale L. Walker’s Mary Edwards Walker: Above and Beyond<\/a><\/em> (2005), Sharon M. Harris’ Dr. Mary Walker: An American Radical, 1832-1919<\/a><\/em> (2009), and Bonnie Z. Goldsmith’s\u00a0Dr. Mary Edwards Walker: Civil War Surgeon & Medal of Honor Recipient<\/a><\/em> (2010). \u00a0Other important secondary sources include Elizabeth D. Leonard’s Yankee Women: Gender Battles in the Civil War<\/a><\/em> (1994). In addition, see entries in Judith E. Harper’s\u00a0Women During the Civil War: An Encyclopedia<\/em><\/a> (2007) and\u00a0Lynne E. Ford’s Encyclopedia of Women and American Politics<\/a><\/em> (2008). You can also read Walker’s profile at the “National Library of Medicine<\/a>.” In addition,\u00a0this article<\/a> from the\u00a0New York Times<\/em> on June 4, 1977 \u00a0describes the efforts to restore her Medal of Honor.<\/p>\n

Artifacts<\/strong>
\nWalker\u2019s original Medal of Honor is apparently at the Oswego County Historical Society in New York.<\/p>\n

Images<\/strong>
\nSeveral images are in the Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Collection <\/a>, including one circa 1860-70<\/a> and\u00a0one circa 1911<\/a>. The\u00a0Mary Edwards Walker Papers<\/a> at Syracuse University also contain \u00a0several photographs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Life & Family President Andrew Johnson signed bill that authorized Medal of Honor for Walker. President Carter restored Walker’s Medal of Honor on June 10, 1977. Sources While Walker published two books – Hit: Essays on Women\u2019s Rights (1871) and Unmasked, or the Science of Immorality, To Gentlemen by a Woman Physician (1878) \u2013 , […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8648,3975],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arguing-for-justice","category-memory-meaning-1865-2015"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=929"}],"version-history":[{"count":39,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2717,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929\/revisions\/2717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}