BROWN, PRESLEY I., Corporal, Co. B, 102d
Pennsylvania Volunteers, aged 24 years,
received, at the battle of the Wilderness, Virginia, May 6th,
1864, a gunshot wound of scalp, a conoidal
ball entering at middle of left parietal bone,
passing backwards, making a flesh wound two inches
in length, denuding the bone. He was admitted to
Lincoln
Hospital, Washington, D. C., on May 11th,
and, on May 16th, was transferred to Patterson
Park Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland; thence, on
May
21st, to hospital at York, Pennsylvania. Acting Assistant Surgeon H. S. Smyser, under whose
care the patient came at the latter hospital,
reports that the patient stated that there was
loss of sensation in right arm and hand from the
moment he was struck by the ball. On June 10th,
the arm was recovering, and, on June
13th, the patient was transferred to the
hospital at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, whence he was
returned to duty on May 9th, 1865.