Title: Burnes, Jacob

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), 166.

Keywords:on special wounds and injuries of the headwounds and injuries of the headgunshot woundsgunshot contusions of the cranial bonesgunshot fractures of both tables of the skullgunshot fractures of both tables of the cranium without depressionmeagre details of symptoms and treatment, impracticable to verify diagnoses from evidence presented fragment of shell entered anterior to junction of coronal and sagittal sutures, fractured skull but did not detach bone

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e11592

TEI/XML: med.d1e11592.xml


CASE.—Private Jacob Burnes, Co. K, 100th Pennsylvania Volunteers, aged 27 years, was wounded at Fort Steadman, before Petersburg, March 25th, 1865, by a fragment of shell, which entered anterior to junction of coronal and sagittal sutures, fracturing the skull to the extent of three-fourths of an inch, but not detaching the bone. He was admitted to Carver Hospital, Washington, on April 5th, 1865, and was transferred, on April 9th, to Mower Hospital, Philadelphia, where he was discharged from service on May 29th, 1865, with every prospect of entire recovery. Is not a pensioner.