Section I describes the organization and administrative structure of the Chief Surgeon’s Office.

Volume II: Administration American Expeditionary Forces deals with the delivery of medical care in Europe. Volume I: The Surgeon General’s Office examines the administrative structure of the department by describing the office’s organization and supervision of administration, personnel, training, finance, supply, sanitation, nutrition, hospitals, labs, internal medicine, infectious diseases, surgery, neurology, psychiatry and more. The following is a guide to assist scholarly research by providing a brief description of each volume and link to it. Obviously, the second option is easier as it allows one to read it on-line, even to download individual volumes. The first is to find it in a reference library. To study this remarkable resource one has two choices. The result, entitled The Medical Department of the United States Army in the World War, was published from 1921-1929 under the direction of Major General Merritte W. The board stated the purpose of the history to be a wartime description of the department from “administrative and scientific” viewpoints. The project began with Major General William Gorgas’ - Surgeon General from 1914-1918 - order creating a historical board to define and oversee the project. Army’s Medical Department in World War I can be found in the official history produced by the Surgeon General’s Historical Division.

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