Title: Elder, William

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), 335.

Keywords:wounds and injuries of the facegunshot wounds of the facegunshot wounds of the orbital regiongunshot wounds of the eyeeye destroyedwound of footamputation of foot

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e17571

TEI/XML: med.d1e17571.xml


ELDER, WILLIAM, Private, Co. F, 63d Pennsylvania, aged 21 years. Wilderness, May 5th, 1864. Fracture of frontal and temporal bones, eye destroyed; also wound of right foot. Field and Washington hospitals. Amputation of foot. Died May 30th, 1864.