Title: Huff, John A.

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), 86.

Keywords:on special wounds and injuries of the headwounds and injuries of the headgunshot woundsgunshot wounds of the scalpcomplications from intercurrent diseasespneumonia reported as cause of deathquestioned if pulmonary complications were not embolic phenomena, indicating metastatic fociquestioned whether cases were not more properly classified under head of pyæmiasevere wound of scalp from conoidal balldied from wound and pneumonia

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e5359

TEI/XML: med.d1e5359.xml


CASE.—Private John A. Huff, Co. E, 5th Michigan Cavalry, aged 48 years, received, in an engagement near Cold Harbor, Virginia, May 28th, 1864, a severe gunshot wound of the scalp from a conoidal ball. He was admitted to the Cavalry Corps Hospital, and, on June 3d, sent to the Campbell Hospital, Washington, D. C., whence he was furloughed on June 17th, 1864. He died while on furlough, June 23d, 1864, from wound and pneumonia. Surgeon A. F. Sheldon, U. S. V., records the case.