Contents
Introduction
Prologue: A Locked Room, a Battered Body
1. “The Fortune I Desired and Expected”
2. “I Soon Found My Hands Full”
3. “My Blood Is Up”
4. “The Best Specimen of a Tyrant”
5. “A Severe Punishment of a Deluded and Spiteful People”
6. “The Whole Camp Still as Death”
7. “The First Negro Hospital”
8. “The Wails of the Wounded”
9. “Friends and Enemies”
10. “A Second Class Man”
11. “The Usual Little Jarrings in the Ward”
12. “A Critical and Searching Examination”
13. “Patients that Manifested a Dislike to Dr. Van Norstrand”
14. “Little Short of Murderous Neglect”
15. “Rotten Eggs”
16. “A Solemn Court of Impeachment”
17. “Abandon Hope”
18. “A True Gentleman of the Old School”
Epilogue: “Three Percent Hastings”
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index