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Doctor Mary Walker

The History Chicks : A Women's History Podcast

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Confederate Soldiers and the Confederacy

For two full months, she continued to travel the area, first with the soldiers and then w like weere sayn alone. They looked at her clothes, they thought, there's no way that you are a doctor. You must be a spy. She was seized and ultimately taken to one of the most notorious prisons in the confederacy,. called castle thunder in richmond, virginia. If she'd been wearing a traditional dress and had a bag full of medicaments, she could have sold it writing.

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