DUNGAN, T. J., Private,
Co. F, 46th Pennsylvania
Volunteers, received, in an engagement at Cedar Mountain, Virginia, August 9th, 1862, a gunshot wound of the right
temple. The bone near the auditory foramen was contused, and the facial nerve
was implicated. He was admitted, on August
13th, to the 2d division hospital, at Alexandria, and, on August 31st, transferred to the Judiciary Square Hospital, Washington,
whence he was discharged from the service on November 12th, 1862. The sense of hearing was
impaired, and the right side of the face paralyzed. In March, 1863, Pension
Examiner G. McCook, of PittsburgPittsburgh, Pennsylvania, reported this man's
disabilities permanent and incurable. In November, 1867, Pension Examiner E.
Swift reported that the sense of hearing on the right side was almost
entirely lost, and that facial paralysis existed, together with an inability to
close the right eyelids.