Title: Brown, Herman

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 diseasesproximate cause of death not distinctly statedfracture of parietal, posterior portion of temporal, and inferior portion of occipital by conoidal ballportions of parietal bone removed

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e16589

TEI/XML: med.d1e16589.xml


BROWN, HERMAN, Private, Co. C, 5th Wisconsin, aged 32 years. Fort Steadman, April 2d, 1865. Fracture of left parietal, posterior portion of temporal, and inferior portion of occipital, by a conoidal ball. Corps and Alexandria hospitals. Removal of portions of left parietal. Death, April 8th, 1865.