Dr Mary Edwards Walker with her medal. She is a white woman with dark hair. She's wearing a dress and looking miserable about it.

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   CarveHerName (carvehername@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 11-Apr-2025 07:43:39 JST CarveHerName

   "I don’t wear men’s clothes, I wear my own."

   #OnThisDay, 10 Apr 1864, army surgeon Dr Mary Edwards Walker is captured by the Confederates during the US Civil War. She later receives the Medal of Honor.

   As well as serving in the Civil War, and being a dress reformer who preferred to wear trousers, she was also a suffragist who declined to take her husband’s name when they married.

   #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons