Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20150910:05:44:00
So it is mary walker, her name, that appears on her congressional medal of honor, which she received in 1865 when she became the first woman to receive the congressional medal of honor. this is her story. mary walker was born in 1832 and grew up on a farm in upstate new york where her father was a self-taught country doctor. mary's parents were abolitionists and their home was a stop on the underground railroad providing shelter and a hideout for escaped slaves on their way to freedom in canada. mary had four sisters and a younger brother and they all worked on the farm. as a teenager, mary gr...