{"product_id":"a-woman-doctors-civil-war-gerald-schwartz-9780872496224","title":"A Woman Doctor's Civil War: Esther Hill Hawks' Diary","description":"\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile 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. 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 mothing as she traveled through a hungary and ailing land.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the well-known \u003ci\u003eDiary from Dixie\u003c\/i\u003e, Mary Boykin Chestnut depiced her native Southland as one of cavaliers with their ladies, statesmen and politicians, honor and glory. But Hawks painted a much different picture. And unlike Chestnut's characters, hers were liberated slaves and their hungary children, swaggering carpetbaggers, occupation troops far from home, and zealous missionaries. Revealed in the pages of this diary is a woman of vast energy, intelligence, and fortitude, who transformed her idealism into action.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gerald Schwartz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0872496228\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780872496224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of South Carolina Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/31\/1989\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.08lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.02w x 0.80d","brand":"Gerald Schwartz","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43926704652543,"sku":"9780872496224","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_466a3dc6-e29f-4069-b32e-db525a2da79d.jpg?v=1681084545","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-woman-doctors-civil-war-gerald-schwartz-9780872496224","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}