CASE.—Private
Harvey Platt, Co. A, 7th Indiana
Volunteers, aged 25 years, was wounded at the battle of SpottsylvaniaSpotsylvania Court House, May 12th, 1864, by a conoidal musket ball which
fractured the skull. In the same engagement, he received a wound of the right
leg. He was admitted to the hospital of the 4th division, Fifth Corps; thence
was sent to the Mount Pleasant hospital
at Washington on the 16th, and was
transferred, on the 18th, to
McKim's Mansion Hospital, Baltimore. After several other transfers, he was
finally admitted into hospital No. 4, at Madison, Wisconsin, on September 1st,
1864, and discharged from service on January 20th, 1865, and pensioned. Pension Examiner M. H. Harding states that
the patient is disqualified for manual labor during the warm season, owing to
vertigo and pain in the head, which seriously impair his health. He rates his
disability three-fourths.