CASE 4.—Corporal Ellsby McCoy, Co. D, 20th Maine Volunteers, aged 19 years, was
wounded at Poplar Grove Church, Virginia, September 30th, 1864, by a conoidal ball, which
entered the chest on the left side, fractured the
fourth rib, and, glancing, lodged in the axilla on
the same side. He was taken to the field hospital
of the Fifth Corps, and, on October 7th, was transferred to Lincoln Hospital, Washington. On October
20th, Assistant Surgeon J. C. McKee, U. S. A.,
administered chloroform and extracted the ball
through an incision made along the border of the
lattissimus dorsi muscle; the end of the fractured
rib was also resected. The patient was discharged
from service March 23d, 1865. He is not a pensioner.