Title: Loll, Joseph

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), 500.

Keywords:wounds and injuries of the chestgunshot wounds of the chestpenetrating gunshot wounds of the chesttreatment by hermetically sealingball perforated or penetrated lungwound hermetically sealed on field

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e19522

TEI/XML: med.d1e19522.xml


CASE.—Corporal Joseph Loll, Co. K, 63d Pennsylvania Volunteers, was wounded at Chancellorsville, Virginia, May 3d, 1863, by a musket ball, which perforated or penetrated the left lung. The wound was hermetically sealed on the field by Assistant Surgeon B. Howard, U. S. A., after which he was conveyed to the field hospital of the 1st division, Third Corps. On May 7th, he was transferred to St. Aloysius Hospital, Washington, and returned to duty on September 16th, 1863. He is not a pensioner. The case is reported by the operator.