Bloomers on the Battlefield
The tenacious life of Dr. Mary Edwards Walker
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6 min readJan 6, 2021
While tending to the medical needs of southern Civil War casualties, Dr. Mary Edwards Walker was kidnapped by confederate soldiers. She was taken, under guard, from Georgia to Richmond, Virginia and thrown in a cell. It was April 1864, and Mary was serving as assistant surgeon in the Union Army.