Title: Nash, George

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), 179.

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 with depressiondisabilities following depressed gunshot fracturesdisorders of nerves of special sense followed depressed gunshot fractures of skulllesions or functional derangements of the optic nervesimpaired vision after depressed fractures of portions of the craniumpistol ball caused compound comminuted fracture of external table of left parietal bone near lambdoid sutureimpaired vision, disturbance of cerebral functionsdisability rated three-fourths and permanent

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e12742

TEI/XML: med.d1e12742.xml


CASE.—Private George Nash, Troop L, 1st Michigan Cavalry, aged 24 years, was wounded at Dinwiddie Court House, Virginia, by a pistol ball, which caused a compound comminuted fracture of the external table of the left parietal bone near the lambdoid suture. On April 1st, he was admitted to the hospital of the cavalry corps; on April 4th, sent to the Mount Pleasant Hospital, Washington; and on May 22d, 1865, was transferred North. He was discharged May 30th, 1865, and pensioned. Pension Examiner M. L. Green reported on November 19th, 1868, that the patient suffers from impaired vision and disturbance of the cerebral functions. His disability is rated at three-fourths and permanent.