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"I don’t wear men’s clothes, I wear my own."

#OnThisDay, 10 Apr 1864, army surgeon Dr Mary Edwards Walker is captured by the Confederates during the US Civil War. She later receives the Medal of Honor.

As well as serving in the Civil War, and being a dress reformer who preferred to wear trousers, she was also a suffragist who declined to take her husband’s name when they married.

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Dr Mary Edwards Walker in later life. She is wearing a wing collar shirt with a cravat, a heavy overcoat and a top hat. She is a white woman with white hair.
Dr Mary Edwards Walker with her medal. She is a white woman with dark hair. She's wearing a dress and looking miserable about it.
Dr Mary Edwards Walker in later life. She is wearing a trouser suit, overcoat and scarf, and carrying a top hat. She is a white woman with white hair.
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