Title: Chase, Reuben

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), 334.

Keywords:wounds and injuries of the facegunshot wounds of the facegunshot wounds of the orbital regiongunshot wounds of the eyetotal loss of one eye

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e17544

TEI/XML: med.d1e17544.xml


CHASE, REUBEN, Private, Co. A, 37th Massachusetts Volunteers, aged 24 years. Shell wound, fracturing maxillary and malar hones, causing total loss of right eye. Hatcher's Run, Virginia, February 7th, 1865. Admitted to Campbell Hospital, Washington, March 19th, 1865. Sent to Satterlee Hospital, Philadelphia, April 6th. Discharged July 6th, 1865, and pensioned.