The Civil War was the greatest health disaster the United States has ever experienced, killing more than a million Ameri
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List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Understanding Civil War Medicine2. Women, War, and Medicine3. Infectious Disease in the Civil War4. Connecting Home to Hospital and Camp5. The Sanitary Commission and Its Critics6. The Union's General Hospital7. Medicine for a New Nation8. Confederate Medicine9. Mitigating the Horrors of War10. A Public Health Legacy11. Medicine in Postwar AmericaAfterwordNotesIndex