Esther Hill Hawks

Having volunteered for "front-line" duty, Dr. Esther Hawks was shipped south to General Hospital Number 10 for Colored Troops, which was directed by her husband, Dr. J.M. Hawks, and was the first such hospital established by the federal War Department. A keen and sympathetic observer, Dr. Hawks takes a great interest in the attitudes and habits of her charges, which she finds just as engaging as her medical work.

Having carried out the labor of setting up and maintaining an army hospital, the staff of General Hospital Number 10 then witness the worst of what war has to offer, as the wounded soldiers of the Battle of Fort Wagner are carried in.

In Hospital—

The first General Hospital established in Beaufort for colored soldiers, was opened on the 12th of Apr. 1863 under the...