I am ashamed.

I never heard of Mary Edwards Walker. She died February 21, 1919.

"Let the generations know that women in uniform also guaranteed their freedom."

What an amazing person. She is the first and only woman to be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for service in the Civil War as a surgeon. She was just fascinating - a suffragette, an abolitionist, a spy, a POW, an inventor, a writer, a lecturer, a cross-dresser.

She was a passionate advocate for women's dress reform, saying women's dress was immodest and inconvenient.