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

by Esther Hill Hawks

Book Overview

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"