CASE.—Private Adam W. Zimmerman, Co. B, 184th
Pennsylvania Volunteers, aged 30 years, was
wounded at the battle of Petersburg, Virginia,
June 22d, 1864, upon the left side of the head,
near the sagittal suture, by a conoidal musket
ball, which passed directly backward, tearing up
the scalp and fracturing the parietal bone. He was
immediately admitted to the hospital of the Second Corps, and thence conveyed to Alexandria, and
admitted on July 4th into the 2nd division hospital. On July 13th, he was transferred to the Broad and Cherry Streets Hospital at Philadelphia.
Soon after, a fragment of bone, measuring one and
one-fourth inches in length by three-fourths in
width, was removed. On July 18th, he was sent to
the Summit House Hospital, and thence, on August
24th, transferred to the Satterlee Hospital,
where, on October 20th, another piece of bone of
nearly the same size, including a portion of the
inner table three-fourths of an inch in diameter,
was removed. An extensive incision of the scalp
was now made to secure a ready discharge of pus.
Other small scales of bone were removed as they
became detached; otherwise the case progressed
satisfactorily. The wound had fully cicatrized by
the middle of March, 1865, and the patient was
discharged from service on May 6th, 1865. The case
is reported by Surgeon Isaac I. Hays, U. S. V. In
1869, he was a pensioner, his disability being
rated permanent. The right arm and leg were partially paralyzed.