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Dr. Mary Edwards Walker (1832-1917) – formally named the only female acting assistant surgeon in the US Army during the Civil War; spied for the Union Army; became a prisoner of war in Richmond; one of the first women to wear pants in America (crazy); to this day, she is still the only woman to have received the Medal of Honor
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The Blackwell Sisters (1821, 1826-1910) – that's DOCTORS Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell to you! Elizabeth became the first woman in America to attend medical school and the first to earn a medical degree in 1849; the sisters focused on giving medical care to the poor; founded the first American hospital staffed by women in Manhattan in 1857 and a women's medical college in 1868
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