Title: Leonard, Charles H.

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), 149.

Keywords:on special wounds and injuries of the headwounds and injuries of the headgunshot woundsgunshot contusions of the cranial bonesgunshot fractures of the inner table of the skullfractures of the vitreous table of the skull without fracture or depression of the outer tableconoidal musket ball caused wound of scalp over occipital protuberance, external table not fracturedfragment of inner table loose on dura matertrephining performedencephalitis

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e11064

TEI/XML: med.d1e11064.xml


CASE 18.—Private Charles H. Leonard, Co. H, 57th Massachusetts Volunteers, aged 22 years, was wounded, at the battle of the Wilderness, Virginia, May 6th, 1864, by a conoidal musket ball. He was conveyed to Washington, D. C., and, on May 11th, admitted to the Columbian Hospital. There was a wound of the scalp over the left occipital protuberance, but the external table was not fractured. On May 15th, Acting Assistant Surgeon H. D. Vosburgh applied the trephine, removed a portion of bone, and took out a fragment of the inner table, which was lying loose on the dura mater. Coma supervened, and death occurred on May 17th, 1864, from encephalitis.