ISBN: 0872496228
Author: Gerald Schwartz
Language: English
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press (July 1, 1989)
Pages: 289
Category: Americas
Subcategory: History
Rating: 4.4
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Women Doctors and Nurses of the Civil War (American Women at WAr). Born in Brooklyn, New York, Gerald Schwartz is a professor of history at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, North Carolina.
Women Doctors and Nurses of the Civil War (American Women at WAr). A graduate of Mexico City College, Dr. Schwartz holds a P. from Washington State University. His article, "An Integrated Free School in Civil War Florida," which also concerns the career of Dr. Esther Hill Hawks, appeared in The Florida Historical Quarterly. Series: Women's Diaries and Letters of the Nineteenth-Century South.
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Women's Diaries and Letters of the Nineteenth-Century South. Other books in this series. About Esther Hill Hawks. A Woman Doctor's Civil War. Esther Hill Hawks. Esther Hill Hawks, appeared in The Florida Historical Quarterly show more.
A Woman Doctor's Civil War Esther Hill Hawks' Diary. 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 doctor. A physician, a Northerner, a teacher, a school administrator, a suffragist, and an abolitionist, Esther Hill Hawks was the antithesis of Southern womanhood. She kept a diary and described the South she saw-conquered but still proud. Her pen, honed to a fine point by her abolitionist views, missed nothing as she traveled through a hungry and ailing land.
Esther's diary was found in an attic in 1975 and published as A Woman Doctor's Civil War: Esther Hill Hawks' Diary. Hawks advocated for the creation of the first Freedman's Savings Bank. Retrieved 2013-05-10.
Esther's diary was found in an attic in 1975 and published as A Woman Doctor's Civil War: Esther Hill Hawks' Diary Hawks was born on November 26, 1826 in Bradford, New Hampshire to Colburn and Clarissa Brown Hawks. In 1865, he helped found the Florida Land and Lumber Company with other officers. The business provided homes and jobs for freed slaves.
Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for A Woman Doctor's Civil War: Esther Hill . At first hand took into treatment of the wartime wounded by a woman serving behind battle lines.
At first hand took into treatment of the wartime wounded by a woman serving behind battle lines.
A Woman Doctor's Civil War: Esther Hill Hawks' Diary. Her diary covers the Civil War & Reconstruction periods. Hawks, Esther Hill (University of South Carolina, 1984). The author of this diary was one of America's first female physicians. Before the Civil War, she & her husband, John Milton Hawks, also a physician, had a practice in Manchester, . In 1862, she joined her husband on the Sea Islands of . to minister to black Union troops & newly-freed slaves as teacher & doctor. Her diary covers the Civil War & Reconstruction periods
A Woman Doctor’s Civil War: Esther Hill Hawks’ Diary (Women’s Diaries and Letters of the Nineteenth Century South). Women at the front: hospital workers in Civil War America.
A Woman Doctor’s Civil War: Esther Hill Hawks’ Diary (Women’s Diaries and Letters of the Nineteenth Century South). Columbia: University of South Carolina Press; 1984. Esther Hill Hawks Civil War Women Blog 2006. 39. Schultz JE. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press; 2007. p. 17. oogle Scholar. 40. Commencement exercises.
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