Title: Weller, 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), 471.

Keywords:wounds and injuries of the chestincised wounds, contusions, and miscellaneous injuriesmiscellaneous injuriescontusion of chest and backfall from a horse

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e19142

TEI/XML: med.d1e19142.xml


CASE.—Private William Weller, Co. C, 1st New Jersey Cavalry, aged 23 years, was admitted to Fairfax Seminary Hospital, Virginia, May 3d, 1864, with a contusion of the chest and back, received April 30th, by falling from a horse. On May 7th, he was transferred to Cuyler Hospital, Germantown, and returned to duty on May 7th, 1864. Not a pensioner. Assistant Surgeon Henry S. Schell, U. S. A., reports the case.