CASE.—Private John F. Lord, Co. I, 1st Maine
Cavalry, aged 24 years, was wounded at the battle
of the Wilderness, May 6th, 1864, by a conoidal
musket ball, which entered the left eye and lodged
at the left temple. He was at once admitted to the
hospital of the 2d division, Cavalry Corps, thence
conveyed to Washington, and admitted, on the 11th into the Emory Hospital, where the missile was
extracted and the wound dressed in the usual
manner. On May 16th, he was transferred to the De
Camp Hospital, New York, and thence, on June 2d,
sent to the Cony Hospital at Augusta, Maine. On
February 16th, 1865, he was discharged from
service and pensioned. Examiner John L. Allen, M. D., reports, October 22d, 1866, that there is a
depression of the skull over the left eye,
resulting in paralysis of left side and upper and
lower extremities. He can but just drag himself
about.