The Medal of Honor - Doctor Mary E Walker

She wrote again to the president with even more documentations on her achievements and an actual rebuttal to that board review, where she said the examination was intended to be a farce. More than half of the time was consumed in questions regardin subjects that were exclusively feminine and had no sort of relation to the diseases and wounds of soldiers. The president looked around for a way to recognize doctor walker's unique contribution to the war effort. And in november of 18 65, he awarded the 33 rolle doctor mary walker the medal of honor,. She pinned it right on her jacket and that's where it stayed for the rest of her life.