News

It was renamed Fort Walker in 2023, after Dr. Mary Walker, the Army’s first female surgeon who was ultimately awarded the Medal of Honor for her service during the Civil War.
Elizabeth Van Lew, a Southern belle turned Union spymaster, exemplifies true heroism during the Civil War, challenging the diluted modern concept of a hero.
A tenth of our national debt expended in public education 50 years ago would have saved us the blood and treasure of the late war. A far less sum may save our children from still greater calamity.