Research Catalog

Title

A woman doctor's Civil War : Esther Hill Hawks' diary / edited with foreword and afterword by Gerald Schwartz.

Author

Hawks, Esther Hill, 1833-1906.

Publication

Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, ©1984.

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Details

Additional Authors

Schwartz, Gerald, 1932-

Description

ix, 301 pages : portraits; 24 cm.

Summary

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.

Series Statement

Women's diaries and letters of the nineteenth-century South series

Uniform Title

Women's diaries and letters of the nineteenth-century South

Subject

• Hawks, Esther Hill, 1833-1906
• Hawks, Esther Hill, 1833-1906
• 1800-1899
• African Americans > Sea Islands > History > 19th century
• Physicians > United States > Biography
• Physicians
• Black or African American > history
• Physicians
• Warfare
• physicians
• African Americans
• Medical care
• Women
• Sezessionskrieg 1861-1865
• Ärztin
• Sezessionskrieg (1861-1865)
• United States > History > Medical care. > Civil War, 1861-1865
• United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Personal narratives
• United States > History > Women. > Civil War, 1861-1865
• Sea Islands > History
• Florida
• Georgia
• South Carolina
• United States
• United States > Sea Islands
• United States > History > Medical & sanitary aspects. > Civil War, 1861-1865

Genre/Form

• Biography
• Biographies
• History
• Personal narratives
• Biographies.
• Diaries.

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 283-288.

ISBN

• 0872494357
• 9780872494350
• 0872496228
• 9780872496224

LCCN

84011998

OCLC

• ocm10851509
• 10851509
• SCSB-648699

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library