Who Is Thomas Walker Considered A Surgeon In The 1800's

In the 1800’s, women’s rights, dress reform and suffrage had begun to really become a global issue. Mary Edwards Walker was a women’s right activist and several other things including, a nurse and later a surgeon in the Civil War, a writer, an abolitionist and a feminist. During her lifetime, she accomplished many extraordinary achievements, including being awarded The Congressional Medal of Honor for her service during the war. She was the first and only woman as of 2015 to have been awarded this Medal of Honor.
Mary Edwards Walker was born on November 26th, 1832 and raised in Oswego, New York. She was one of five children and was encouraged by her parents become a teacher, but once a teen she decided to go to Syracuse Medical School. She
Thomas, who was a principal commander of the Civil War. Soon after being appointed the position she wanted, Walker was captured by the Confederate Army and help captive for several months. Once released, she returned to Washington D.C and the government provided her with a contract to officially become the “acting assistant surgeon with the Ohio 52nd infantry” ("Mary Walker Biography Women's Rights Activist, Nurse, Doctor, Surgeon (1832–1919)." Bio.com. A&E Networks Television)
After becoming the acting assistant surgeon, Walker went on to help women prisoners in Kentucky and orphanages in Tennessee. Which soon after that accomplishment, President Andrew Jackson signed a citation that awarded Walker with the Congressional Medal of Honor for her war effort and dedication. In 1917, unfortunately the criteria for the Medal of Honor changed and her award was stripped away but she continued to wear it.
The recognition she was awarded with made her feel very well appreciated and continued to participate and gear up other movements. Walker participated in movements for women, children, reform movements, and many others. Her dress reform movement was well noticed when she began to dress more
She concluded the following in 1897, "I am the original new woman...Why, before Lucy Stone, Mrs. Bloomer, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony were—before they were, I am. In the early '40's, when they began their work in dress reform, I was already wearing pants...I have made it possible for the bicycle girl to wear the abbreviated skirt, and I have prepared the way for the girl in knickerbockers." (Donald A. B. Lindberg, M.D. "Changing the Face of Medicine | Dr. Mary Edwards Walker." U.S National Library of Medicine. U.S. National Library of Medicine.