Title: W——, William M.

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 fragmentsdeaths from intercurrent diseasespneumoniametastatic focifracture of frontal and parietal bones by buckshotbone fragments removed

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e16577

TEI/XML: med.d1e16577.xml


W——, William M., Private, Co. I, 19th Georgia regiment. Fredericksburg, December 13th, 1862. Fracture of frontal and right parietal bones by a buckshot. Washington hospitals. Removal of fragments. Died March 1st, 1863, of pneumonia. The pathological specimen is No. 991, Sect. I, A. M. M. Probably a case of metastic​ foci.