Title: McElroy, James

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), 100.

Keywords:on special wounds and injuries of the headwounds and injuries of the headgunshot woundsgunshot contusions of the cranial bonescontusion of the skull without fracturedeserted from hospital, inferred that disabilities not seriouscontusion of frontal bone by conoidal musket ball

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e6036

TEI/XML: med.d1e6036.xml


McELROY, JAMES, Private, Co. F, 36th Wisconsin Volunteers, aged 40 years. Contusion of the frontal bone by a conoidal musket ball. Petersburg, Virginia, June 24th, 1864. Treated at Division, Lincoln, and York Hospitals. Deserted September 20th, 1864.