DR. MARY E. WALKER.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]
SIR,—The statement contained in your last issue purporting to be a document signed by Assistant-Surgeon Crane, by order of the Surgeon-General of the United States, is false. I was not in Georgia, Tennessee, or Kentucky at the time stated, and was never examined by Medical Director Perin, and never saw him ; nor was I ever examined by any board that he had appointed. I had a regular contract from the United States in the year 1864 as A.A. Surgeon in the regular Army. There were about 300 Surgeons that had contracts similar to mine. At the close of the war, —I quote from the Washington Republican,—" President Johnson, carrying out the purposes of his predecessor, President Lincoln, and acting upon such high authority as Major-General Sherman, General Thomas, and General McCook, has been pleased to issue an order in favour of Dr. Mary E. Walker. It is handsomely inscribed on parchment, and is given to her for faithful services as Contract Surgeon in the United States' Army. The document was signed November 11, 1865." I took the degree of M.D. in New York in 1855, and at the close of the war, upon my contract is written, "Annulled at her own request." MARY E. WALKER, M.D. MARY E. WALKER, M.D.
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