Title: Clark, Henry

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), 258.

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 skullfatal cases of gunshot fractures of the skull treated by elevation or removal of fragmentsmissiles lodgedlodgement of projectiles in brain tissuefracture of right parietal bone by conoidal musket ballremoval of bone fragmentsautopsyball in middle lobe of brain

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e16558

TEI/XML: med.d1e16558.xml


CLARK, HENRY, Private, Co. B, 1st New Jersey, aged 23 years. Petersburg, March 31st, 1865. Fracture of right parietal by conoidal musket ball. Field and Washington hospitals. Removal of fragments. Died April 13th, 1865. The autopsy revealed the ball in the middle lobe of the brain.