Title: Miller, Noah

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), 118.

Keywords:on special wounds and injuries of the headwounds and injuries of the headgunshot woundsgunshot contusions of the cranial bonescontusion of the skull without fractureepilepsy, remote effect of gunshot contusions of craniumgunshot wound of scalp with denudation of craniumepileptic convulsionrheumatism

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e8218

TEI/XML: med.d1e8218.xml


MILLER, NOAH, Private, Co. H, 91st Pennsylvania Volunteers, aged 33 years, received, in the battle of Fredericksburg, Virginia, December 13th, 1862, a gunshot wound of the scalp, with denudation of the cranium. He was conveyed to Washington, and admitted, on the 17th, into the Mt. Pleasant Hospital. On January 5th, 1863, the patient was transferred to the Mower Hospital, Philadelphia. On May 2d, he was seized with an epileptic convulsion, which continued two hours. He also suffered from rheumatism. Discharged from service, September 21st, 1863. Surgeon Joseph Hopkinson, U. S. V., reports the case. The name of the patient is not upon the records of the Pension Office.