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Contemporary health providers stand-in as Civil War surgeons during a re-enactment at the Spangler Barn in Gettysburg, Pa., ...
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Her Medal of Honor was once revoked. Now her base is being renamed.Fort Walker, named in 2023 after Civil War Union surgeon Mary Walker, will revert back to Fort A.P. Hill. For her family, the retraction feels familiar.
The US Army said Tuesday it will restore the names of seven Army bases that previously honored Confederate leaders.
U.S Army surgeon J.D. Irwin led the first Medal of Honor action on this day in history, Feb. 13, 1861. He helped rescue 60 trapped soldiers and a kidnapped boy from Apaches.
It was renamed Fort Walker in 2023, after Dr. Mary Walker, the Army’s first female surgeon who was ultimately awarded the Medal of Honor for her service during the Civil War.
Finally, Fort Anderson-Pinn-Hill, formerly Fort Walker, will now bear the names of three Civil War Medal of Honor recipients: Lt. Col. Edward Hill, 1st Sgt. Robert A. Pinn, and Pvt. Bruce Anderson.
Tubman earned a distinction for her field prowess before the Civil War began. After a June 1858 meeting in Niagara Falls, Ontario, abolitionist John Brown nicknamed her “General” Tubman ...
Coffee was an important part of a Union soldier’s ration during the Civil War. Each soldier was issued 36 pounds of coffee per year.
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