Preface -- Introduction -- Making and Testing the Fifth Wheel -- The Soldier and the Sanitary Commission, 1861 -- The Army Hospitals, Surgeons, and Nurse, 1861 -- Ambulance Corps, General Supplies, and Medicines, 1861 -- Wind of Controversy -- Mixed Blessings -- The Melancholy Battles -- Battles within Battles -- The Ledger of Battle -- Wheels of Battle -- The Wheel of Fortune -- The Nettles of War -- From Fifth Wheel to Red Cross -- Conclusion -- Biographical Notes -- Sources -- Bibliography -- Index.