Title: Nelty, Louis

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), 140.

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 cases of fracture of external table of skull, without defining location of injurytreated as scalp woundouter table of cranium fractured

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e10712

TEI/XML: med.d1e10712.xml


CASE.—Private Louis Nelty, Co. D, 149th New York Volunteers, was wounded, at the battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, July 3d, 1863. He was admitted to a field hospital, where the injury was treated as a scalp wound. On July 16th, he was transferred to the Carver Hospital, Washington, where it was diagnosticated​ that the outer table of the cranium was fractured. He was returned to duty on October 19th, 1863. His name is not upon the Pension Rolls.