CASE.—Private
Jonathan Wiser, Co. E, 49th
Pennsylvania Volunteers, aged 35 years, was wounded at the battle of the Wilderness, May 5th, 1864, by a conoidal musket ball, which
fractured and slightly depressed the cranium. He was at first admitted to the
hospital of the 1st division, Sixth Corps, and, on May 12th, was sent to the Mount Pleasant Hospital, Washington. The records of the latter hospital state that the ball had not been extracted. On September 24th,
he was admitted to the Frederick Hospital, Maryland, where he remained under
treatment until June 6th, 1865,
when he was discharged from service. The case is reported by Assistant Surgeon C. A. McCall, U. S. A. This patient is not on the pension list.