Title: Thompson, James M.

Source text: Surgeon General Joseph K. Barnes, United States Army, The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion. (1861–65.), Part 1, Volume 2 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1870), 136.

Keywords:on special wounds and injuries of the headwounds and injuries of the headgunshot woundsgunshot contusions of the cranial bonesgunshot fractures of the external table of the cranium aloneappearances and symptoms of skull fracture not defined with sufficient precision to permit accurate diagnosisalleged gunshot fracture of outer plate of frontal boneinjured by conoidal musket ball

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e10167

TEI/XML: med.d1e10167.xml


CASE.—Private James M. Thompson, Co. A, 70th Ohio Volunteers, aged 24 years. Atlanta, Georgia, July 28th, 1864. Conoidal musket ball. Treated at corps, Fairfax Seminary, and Camp Dennison hospitals. Discharged from service July 9th, 1855​. Not on Pension List.