In short, Mary Walker was a rear-echelon Civil War era civilian contract surgeon that did her job as did thousands of other male Cival War era surgeons who never had a U.S. postage stamp issued in their honor. Her POW status was the result of bumping into Confederate soldiers in a non-combat situation and she was soon thereafter the beneficiary of a prisoner exchage.
Leave it to freaking Jimmy Carter to pull a stunt like this. Sheesh. The man (and I use the term loosely, as I do with Bill Clinton) makes me want to scream and tear my hair out.
All I expect is that a woman would have to do the same as a man to receive the same level of recognition. That's it. This lowering of the bar for females is just plain wrong.
She will also get the military medals to which she is entitled, but it won't include the CMOH.