Fort Walker, named in 2023 after Civil War Union surgeon Mary Walker, will revert back to Fort A.P. Hill. For her family, the ...

With the exciting news that a National Medal of Honor Museum is now open in Arlington, Tex., I think many people are asking, “Has a woman ever received the Medal of Honor?” The answer is yes.

She tried to enlist but was rejected for the role of surgeon because she was a woman and was offered a nursing ... She wasn’t instructed to return her medal, however. She insisted that she ...

Fort Walker will return to being known as Fort A.P. Hill, originally named after Ambrose Powell Hill, a Confederate general ...

In a rare move for the U.S. military, Medal of Honor recipient Sgt ... of good men and women who are willing to stand up and who are willing defend the beliefs of the American people, of the ...

Fitz Lee grew up in Dinwiddie County, received the Medal of Honor for bravery during wartime and died of health issues ...

Marra, who spent 17 years as an Army spouse and said she’d met other Medal of Honor recipients over the years, said Walker was always proud to be a woman, and even opted at times to wear her ...