Title: Clark, L. E.

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), 221.

Keywords:on special wounds and injuries of the headwounds and injuries of the headgunshot woundsgunshot fractures of the cranial bonesremoval of fragments after gunshot fractures of the skullexfoliation and removal of necrosed or detached fragments of cranial bones after gunshot injuriesoperations for the removal of detached fragments of bone after depressed gunshot fractures of the skullconoidal ball fractured right temporal bone above ear and lodgedleft arm and leg paralyzedvision remained impairedleft leg recovered, partial use of the armloss of intellectrecurring spasms, caused by compression of brain

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e15497

TEI/XML: med.d1e15497.xml


CASE.—Sergeant L. E. Clark, Co. E, 26th Michigan Volunteers, aged 21 years, was wounded near Petersburg, Virginia, June 17th, 1864, by a conoidal ball, which fractured the right temporal bone, two inches above the ear, and lodged. He was conveyed to the hospital of the 1st division, Second Corps, and remained insensible until the next day, when the ball was extracted and several fragments of bone were removed. The operation gave great relief; but the left arm and leg remained paralyzed until the middle of July, when the patient recovered the use of the leg, and partial use of the arm. For two or three days after the removal of the ball, he was almost totally blind; but, in December, his vision was only slightly impaired. He was, on December 9th, sent to Augur Hospital, Alexandria; on December 16th, to Armory Square, Washington, and on February 20th, 1865, to Cliffburne Barracks, whence he was transferred to the Veteran Reserve Corps on March 25th, 1865. He was discharged the service June 28th, 1865, and pensioned. In June, 1866, Pension Examiner R. C. Hutton reported that the man needs constant watching on account of loss of intellect, and of frequently recurring spasms, caused by compression of the brain.