Title: Sturdevant, Clark

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), 224.

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 skullmodified duty in hospital or garrison, physical disabilities ultimately compelled dischargefractures of upper frontal, temporal, or parietal regionsfracture of cranium by shellpressure on brain from exercise

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e15827

TEI/XML: med.d1e15827.xml


STURDEVANT, CLARK, Private, Co. E, 27th New York. Chancellorsville, May 3d, 1863. Fracture of cranium by shell. Treated in Washington hospitals. Removal of loose fragments of bone. Duty, August 11th, 1863; discharged May 31st, 1863. Examiner J. L. Stewart, M. D., states that exercise gives evidences of pressure on the brain.