A Woman Doctor's Civil War

"a delightful and valuable addition to the literature of the Civil War and Reconstruction."—Florida Historical Quarterly

"The diary of Esther Hill Hawks increases our knowledge about early Reconstruction efforts and the unique social experiment involving newly freed blacks of the Sea Islands area of the South."—Register of the Kentucky Historical Society

"This volume presents a point of view not normally encountered in Civil War Literature. Those attracted to black history, women's history, or the history of the Civil War along the Southeast coast will find much of interest . . ."—Civil War Book Exchange

"The three volumes of this diary discovered in a pile of trash in Essex County, Massachusetts in 1975 add fresh insights to the conventional military and political treatises on the Civil War."—El Escribano