CASE.—Private Ferdinand Lauersdorf, Co. D, 6th
Wisconsin Volunteers, aged 28 years, was wounded
in an engagement on the South Side Railroad, near
Petersburg, Virginia, March 31st, 1865, by a
fragment of shell, which struck the body of the
lower jaw, and tore away the entire anterior
portion of the bone. He was conveyed to the
hospital of the 3d division of the Fifth Corps,
and, on April 6th, sent to Campbell Hospital,
Washington, whence he was discharged from service
on July 14th, 1865, on which date a photograph was
taken at the Army Medical Museum. The fractured
extremities of the jaw had united, and the wound
had nearly healed. The movements of the jaw were
very limited, but deglutition was but slightly
interfered with. He is a pensioner.