The third in a four-volume work that covers the history of the Army Medical Department from 1775 to 1941, this volume traces the development of the department from its rebirth as a small, scattered organization in the wake of the Civil War, through the trials of the Spanish-American War and the Philippine Insurrection, up to the entrance of the United States into World War I.A time of revolutionary change both in the organization of the U.S. Army and in medicine, the period climaxed with the golden age of Army medicine, when U.S. medical officers played a leading role in research that developed new and effective weapons in the war against epidemic disease. --Foreword.

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View from the top -- Supporting the army -- The Indian wars -- A new direction -- Preparations for conquests overseas -- Supporting the invasion forces -- Disease and death in U.S. camps -- Campaigns of the new empire -- Public health in Cuba -- Public health in other Caribbean areas -- Public health in the Philippines -- The organizational revolution -- The medical service in action -- In the shadow of war.