Mary Edwards Walker, MD — surgery
Courtesy Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-112180, photograph by M.J. Powers, Plumb Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Dr. Mary Walker (1832–1919), a Union Army surgeon and prisoner of war during the American Civil War, was the first woman awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.
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