1862: An unexpected letter at tea time on Saturday evening kicks off the adventure of a lifetime…

~ CIVIL WAR DIARY of Esther Hill Hawks ~

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The ship in panel 4 is the USS Delaware.

Who is Esther Hill Hawks?

• A native of Hooksett, living in Manchester, NH at the start of the Civil War
• One of the USA’s first female doctors
• An abolitionist… confronting her own deep-seated stereotypes about race
• A volunteer teacher with the Freedmen of coastal South Carolina
• A Civil War-era diarist
• … and more!

SOURCES:

• A WOMAN DOCTOR’S CIVIL WAR
  
  Gerald Schwartz has edited this fine edition of Esther Hill Hawks’ Diary.
•  OUR WAR by Mike Pride
  I first learned of EHH from Mike Pride’s book, “Our War”, which features a chapter about her work with wounded soldiers in the early colored regiments.