Title: Smith, James

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), 136.

Keywords:on special wounds and injuries of the headwounds and injuries of the headgunshot woundsgunshot contusions of the cranial bonesgunshot fractures of the external table of the cranium aloneappearances and symptoms of skull fracture not defined with sufficient precision to permit accurate diagnosisalleged gunshot fracture of outer plate of frontal boneinjured with buck shot

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e10141

TEI/XML: med.d1e10141.xml


CASE.—Private James Smith, Co. C, 5th New Hampshire Volunteers, aged 22 years. Cold Harbor, Virginia, June 1st, 1864. Buck shot. Treated at Alexandria and Chester hospitals. Returned to duty July 8th, 1864. Not on Pension List.