Title: Sheets, Henry

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), 138.

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 fractures of outer table of parietal bonesinjured by conoidal musket ball

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e10540

TEI/XML: med.d1e10540.xml


CASE.—Private Henry Sheets, Co. H, 13th Pennsylvania Cavalry, aged 20 years. Deep Bottom, Virginia, August 13th, 1864. Conoidal musket ball. Treated at corps, Emory, and South street hospitals. Discharged from service May 26th, 1865. Pensioned at four dollars per month.