A Woman Doctor's Civil War: Esther Hill Hawks' Diary

(Part of the Women's Diaries and Letters of the South Series)

by Esther Hill Hawks

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A physician, a Northerner, a teacher, a school administrator, a suffragist, and an abolitionist, Esther Hill Hawks was the antithesis of Southern womanhood. And those very differences destined her to chronicle the era in which she played such a strange part.

While most women of the 1860s stayed at home, tending husband and house, Esther Hill Hawks went south to minister to black Union troops and newly freed slaves as both a teacher and a...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0872496228

ISBN13:9780872496224

Release Date:July 1989

Publisher:University of South Carolina Press

Length:304 Pages

Weight:1.00 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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African-American & Black Biographical Biographies Biographies & History Biography & History Civil War Ethnic & National History Literature & Fiction Medical

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