The only woman to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor for her service during the Civil War, Dr. Mary E. Walker (1832-1919) was a surgeon, a public lecturer, and an outspoken champion of women's rights. One of the first women in the country to be awarded a medical degree, she served as an assistant surgeon for the 52nd Ohio Infantry and was cited for valor in going behind enemy lines to attend to the sick. ALS signed “Mary E. Walker, M.D.,” one page, 6 x 3.25, no date. Brief handwritten letter, in full: "Dear Sir—I expect my book will be published this fall. Yours in noble causes." In fine condition, with a central vertical fold.
The book in question is presumably either Hit: Essays on Women's Rights, published in 1871, or Unmasked, or the Science of Immorality, To Gentlemen by a Woman Physician and Surgeon, which was published in 1878.
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