80 - "WOMEN CAN'T BE SURGEONS!" | Mary Walker (Union Doctor) | Civil War

Gunfire ripped through the Georgia air. Smoke rolled low across the shattered battlefield of downed and dying men.   The wounded lay everywhere; blue and gray uniforms tangled together in mud and blood. Confederate reinforcements advanced. Battered Union troops pulled back.   Yet in the chaos, a lone female figure moved towards the danger instead of away from it.   She wore men’s trousers, hardly the approved dress of a 19th-century lady.   Dr. Mary Walker embodied a special quality that originated from that unique period in America’s history. The passion to choose practicality and efficiency over comfortable conformity.   Bullets snapped past her ears. A shell burst behind her, showering dirt across her back. That didn’t matter to her.   Time and again she defied orders to stay back, to remain “safe.” She would go where other doctors refused. And she treated both friend and foe, as well as local civilians, men, women, and children.   And on that day in 1864, near Chattanooga, Tennessee, she would be captured by the enemy…   I’m Rick Robison and this is the FORGOTTEN PATRIOTS Podcast.   **Want more incredible stories like these for your home??** ---> "FORGOTTEN PATRIOTS" MANUALS (Volumes 1-4) - Purchase on Amazon!   OTHER EPISODES YOU MAY LIKE:   77 - HER CRIME WAS SAVING OTHERS... | Edith Cavell (Nurse) | WWI 34 - THE DAY AN ANGEL APPEARED IN THE WHITE HOUSE | Rebecca Pomroy (Army Nurse) | Civil War 15 - FROM APOSTATE TO PROPHET | Abraham Lincoln | Civil War (Part ONE)   ADDITIONAL RESOURCES: -Join our newsletter and get a free gift! - Click Here -Contact us at: [email protected] -Website: thelegacygen.com -Find our video episodes on YouTube   Surgeon / Civil War / Union Army / 1860s / Woman Doctor / Army Surgeon / Union Rebel