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C O N T E N T S Introduction ...............................................................................ix Prologue: A Locked Room, a Battered Body ..............................1 1. “The Fortune I Desired and Expected”.............................19 2. “I Soon Found My Hands Full”........................................27 3. “My Blood Is Up”..............................................................47 4. “The Best Specimen of a Tyrant”......................................57 5. “A Severe Punishment of a Deluded and Spiteful People” .............................................................................65 6. “The Whole Camp Still as Death”....................................77 7. “The First Negro Hospital”...............................................89 8. “The Wails of the Wounded”..........................................101 9. “Friends and Enemies”....................................................113 10. “A Second Class Man”.....................................................129 11. “The Usual Little Jarrings in the Ward”..........................145 12. “A Critical and Searching Examination”.........................163 13. “Patients that Manifested a Dislike to Dr. Van Norstrand” ........................................................181 14. “Little Short of Murderous Neglect”...............................207 15. “Rotten Eggs”..................................................................221 16. “A Solemn Court of Impeachment”................................233 17. “Abandon Hope”.............................................................245 viii฀฀•฀฀The Best Specimen of a Tyrant 18. “A True Gentleman of the Old School” ..........................263 Epilogue: “Three Percent Hastings”........................................281 Acknowledgments ..................................................................289 Notes .......................................................................................291 Bibliography ............................................................................317 Index........................................................................................327 ...

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