Title: Beisty, Thomas

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), 137.

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 fractures of outer table of parietal bonesinjured with conoidal musket ball

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e10261

TEI/XML: med.d1e10261.xml


CASE.—Corporal Thomas Beisty, Co. A, 43d New York Volunteers, aged 22 years. Wilderness, Virginia, May 5th, 1864. Conoidal musket ball. Treated at corps, Mount Pleasant, Jarvis, and Ira Harris hospitals. Returned to duty October 13th, 1864. Not on Pension List.