Title: Burroughs, Harmon

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), 3.

Keywords:incised and puncture woundswounds and injuries of the headincised scalp woundssabre-cut over parietal region

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e435

TEI/XML: med.d1e435.xml


BURROUGHS, HARMON, Commissary Sergeant, 8th New York Cavalry, aged 17 years. Sabre-cut, four inches in length, over the left parietal region. Beverly Ford, Virginia, June 9th, 1863. Admitted to Lincoln Hospital, Washington, June 10th. Returned to duty July 4th, 1863.