The Story of Walter Senior and Emily Lawrence

Reed started to doubt that he would ever be able to make the kind of change he wanted since he could not seem to get people to respect his knowledge in the medical field. He eventually decided to join the Army Medical Corps and was commissioned as a first lieutenant at the age of 24. Reed had been courting a woman named Emily Lawrence, primarily through letters. And met her while visiting family in Murfreesboro, North Carolina in 1874; they married on April 25 of 1876 before he left for Arizona territory with the medical corps.