CASE.—Corporal James C. McClusky, Co. D, 115th
Pennsylvania Volunteers, aged 56 years, was
wounded at the battle of Chancellorsville, Virginia, May 3d, 1863, by a conoidal musket ball,
which produced a comminuted fracture of both
tables of the frontal bone, right side, and
lodged. The missile and a portion of the os
frontis, an inch in diameter, which was pressing
upon the brain, were removed three days
subsequently in the field hospital. He was sent to
the Harewood Hospital, Washington, on the 15th,
where he remained until the 23d, when he was
transferred to the Satterlee Hospital in
Philadelphia. For a while he improved steadily,
but about the 1st of August, began to sink into a
state of insensibility, in which he remained
several days. He rallied, however, made a rapid
recovery and was discharged from service on the
23d of October, 1863. In January, 1868, his
disability was rated total and permanent. The case
is reported by Surgeon I. I. Hayes, U. S. V. On
January 27th, 1864, Pension Examiner John Lowman
reports this man to be subject to epilepsy, and
rates his disability total and permanent.