Beam, Ansell H.a machine readable transcriptionSusan C. LawrenceKenneth M. PriceKenneth J. Winkle2011med.d1e8540Civil War WashingtonUniversity of Nebraska–LincolnCenter for Digital Research in the Humanities319 Love LibraryUniversity of Nebraska–LincolnLincoln, NE 68588-4100cdrh@unlnotes.unl.edu2011
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(1861–65.)Surgeon General Joseph K. Barnes, United States
ArmyWashington, D.C.Government Printing OfficePart 1Volume 21870121Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellionon special wounds and injuries of the headwounds and injuries of the headgunshot woundsgunshot contusions of the cranial bonescontusion of the skull without fracturemental aberrationprobable chronic irritability of brain, but insufficient details in
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BEAM, ANSELL H., Corporal, Co. I, 26th Michigan Volunteers, aged 21
years, was wounded in the engagement at Farmville,
Virginia, April 6th, 1865,
by a conoidal ball, which made a ragged scalp wound to the right of the sagittal
suture, with contusion of the parietal bone. He was admitted to the hospital of the
1st division, Second Corps, and on April
15th, was sent to the Harewood
Hospital, Washington, where a photograph was made of his injury. On May 18th, he was transferred to the
Satterlee Hospital, Philadelphia. He had many
symptoms of disturbance of the brain. The scalp wound healed up favorably, and on
July 6th, 1865, he was
discharged from the service for disability. A photograph of the case, taken a few
days after the reception of the injury, is preserved in the seventh volume of
Surgical Photographs of the Army Medical
Museum, at page five. It is copied in figure 1 of Plate III, (opposite p.
105.) It is probable that he completely recovered, since his name is not found on
the list of applicants for pension.