English · Drill 49
English practice 49
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decoration, awarded1 respected, which2 people, but only3 Walker, being born4 she also had one younger brother and put herself6 because7 Chickamauga, occasionally8 It was Chickamauga that won fame for General George Thomas, known as the "Rock of Chickamauga."9
recommended10 devoted herself to11 women for the right to vote and authoring12 continually wore13 In accordance with14 her wishes. Mary Edwards Walker was buried in a man's suit instead of a dress.15
for gallantry above and beyond the call of duty. Its recipients are 
a buck private who wears the Medal of Honor will be saluted by a general. The decoration is presented personally by the president, but the requirements for winning involve such great personal danger that nearly half the time it is received posthumously. Since its inception in 1862, the Medal of Honor has been awarded to 3,448 
one of them was a woman.
on a farm in Oswego, New York, in 1832. The youngest of five daughters, 
and throughout her life would occasionally be arrested for impersonating a man. After saving money from working as a schoolteacher, 
through Syracuse Medical College, graduating in 1855 as the only woman in her class. She and her husband Albert opened a clinic, but 
women doctors were an odd thing in those days, business was poor.
working as a surgeon when one was needed, despite her official status. 
In September 1863, Mary Walker was officially commissioned as the first female U.S. Army surgeon. After bravely crossing battle lines to tend to injured civilians, she was captured by Confederate forces in April 1864, charged with espionage, and held as a POW for four months. After the war, she 
the Medal of Honor by both of the famous generals William T. Sherman and George Henry Thomas, and received it from President Andrew Johnson in November 1865.
the cause of feminism, becoming an early leader in the struggle of American 
two books on the subject. Sadly, she fell out of favor with other prominent feminists over differences of opinion on strategy, and was increasingly ignored. Mary’s story took an even sadder turn in 1917, when Congress revised the standards for the Medal of Honor, stipulating that it could only be won for actions taken in combat. The government ordered her to return her medal, but Mary refused, 
it until her death in 1919. The United States finally granted women the right to vote just one year later. 
