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Doctor Mary Walker

The History Chicks : A Women's History Podcast

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Women's Relief Association of Tenth Street

She tried every which way to be officially recognized for what the military considered unfeminine war work of hers. She even wrote a letter to the secretary of war asking him to start her own regiment of men, then she'd recruit them and she'd accompany them as a surgeon. The president decided he did not want to go, in this tense time against the military chain of command. He had some other stuff to do.

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