King, Samuel a machine readable transcription Susan C. Lawrence Kenneth M. Price Kenneth J. Winkle 2011 med.d1e6984 Civil War Washington University of Nebraska–Lincoln Center for Digital Research in the Humanities
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 The following are responsible for particular readings or for changes to this file, as noted: Matthew Bosley Elizabeth Lorang Stacey Berry Elisabeth Tracey The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion. (1861–65.) Surgeon General Joseph K. Barnes, United States Army Washington, D.C. Government Printing Office Part 1 Volume 2 1870 107 Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion gunshot contusions of the cranial bones wounds and injuries of the head persistent pain in the head additional proofing of transcription and encoding case text extracted and transformed from larger file enriched encoding validated file encoded initial checking of OCR text against PDF; encoded

KING, SAMUEL, Private, Co. H, 49th Pennsylvania Volunteers, aged 33 years, received, at the battle of Cold Harbor, Virginia, June 4th, 1864, a severe wound of the left side of the scalp by a conoidal musket ball. He was admitted into the Soldiers' Rest Hospital at Alexandria, June 6th, and a few days later sent to Philadelphia, and admitted, on June 16th, into the 16th and Filbert streets Hospital. On July 16th, he was sent to the Satterlee Hospital. He suffered from constant pain in his head. The wound healed gradually. On September 29th, he was transferred to Camp Curtin at Harrisburg, and, on October 6th, 1864, returned to duty. The case is reported by Surgeon I. I. Hayes, U. S. V.