"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.


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April 10, 2026 - 11:32 UTC

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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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another amazing woman you rarely hear about because the boy's club can't wrap its wits around the reality that women's brains are just as good (sometimes better) than men's brains
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"Struggle for political rights, for it is through such, and such alone, that you will ever obtain human rights."

Dr Mary Edwards Walker
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My grandmother (1880-1955), who was born and raised in Oswego, NY, remembered seeing Dr. Walker around town. She always wore men’s clothes.
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The point she was making in her quote was that there is nothing inherently gendered about clothes. Trousers are not “men’s clothes” - they’re just clothes - yet women were arrested and put on trial for wearing them.
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