A woman doctor's Civil War
Subtitle: Esther Hill Hawks' diary
By: edited with a foreword by Gerald Schwartz.
Contributors: Schwartz, Gerald, 1932-
Series: Women's diaries and letters of the nineteenth-century South
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: 1989
Place of publication: Columbia, S.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
Subjects: Hawks, Esther Hill, -- 1833-1906.; Physicians -- United States -- Biography.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Medical care.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Women.
Description: Esther Hill Hawks went south in the 1860s to minister to black Union troops and newly freed slaves both as a teacher and a doctor. She kept a diary and described the South she saw.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-276) and index.

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