Title: Donovan, Richard

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 by conoidal musket ball

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e10291

TEI/XML: med.d1e10291.xml


CASE.—Private Richard Donovan, Co. G, 7th Rhode Island Volunteers, aged 28 years. Fort Sedgwick near Petersburg, April 2d, 1865. Conoidal musket ball. Treated at field, Mount Pleasant, and Lovell hospitals. Discharged June 29th, 1865. Not on Pension List.