Title: Warwick, Joseph

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), 183.

Keywords:on special wounds and injuries of the headwounds and injuries of the headgunshot woundsgunshot fractures of the cranial bonesdepressed gunshot fracture of cranial bonesdied from compression of brain following injurycompression of the brain by extravasation of blood within the skullconoidal ball struck centre of forehead, apparently penetrated boneconsciousness never returnedpenetration and fracture of frontal bones in midline

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e13129

TEI/XML: med.d1e13129.xml


CASE.—Private Joseph Warwick, Co. A, 26th Michigan Volunteers, was wounded at the battle of Mine Run, Virginia, November 27th, 1863, by a conoidal ball which struck in the centre of the forehead and apparently penetrated the bone. He was sent to the hospital of the 1st division, Second Corps, thence was conveyed to Alexandria, and on December 4th was admitted to the 1st division hospital in a state of insensibility. Consciousness never returned, and death ensued December 6th, 1863.