This history of the U. S. Army Medical Department deals with the period when the Medical Department existed only as a wartime expedient and concludes with the passage in April 1818 of the law that finally established the department on a permanent basis. The discipline that government Army surgeons and their patients enabled them to control treatment and record its results with a precision and regularity impossible in civilian medicine. Thus Army surgeons and the Medical Department played a large role in the progress of medical science, a role not always recognized by the profession, by the...

Although the era of the Spanish-American War marked the emergence of the United States as a world power, it also proved to be a watershed event in the U.S. Armys history. During the conflict, the Army gained its first experience in overseas deployment on opposite sides of the world, waged a difficult counterinsurgency campaign in the Philippines and, during the Boxer relief expedition, got its first taste of multinational coalition warfare. "Correspondence Relating to the War with Spain", the Armys official written communications to and from its field commanders, remains a major primary...

Although the era of the Spanish-American War marked the emergence of the United States as a world power, it also proved to be a watershed event in the U.S. Armys history. During the conflict, the Army gained its first experience in overseas deployment on opposite sides of the world, waged a difficult counterinsurgency campaign in the Philippines and, during the Boxer relief expedition, got its first taste of multinational coalition warfare. "Correspondence Relating to the War with Spain", the Armys official written communications to and from its field commanders, remains a major primary...