Title: Reinwald, Augustus

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), 165.

Keywords:on special wounds and injuries of the headwounds and injuries of the headgunshot woundsgunshot contusions of the cranial bonesgunshot fractures of both tables of the skullgunshot fractures of both tables of the cranium without depressionball lodged in diploöe or sinusesconoidal ball entered left side of the face at base of nose, passed backward and emerged behind right ear, separating mastoid process of temporal bonebleeding from mouth, ear, and eyethird pair of [cranial] nerves paralyzedloss of vision of right eye and of sensation and mobility of right side of faceunable to swallow or open mouthprofuse suppuration of wounds, posterior wound continued discharge profusely[right] eye lachrymose, mouth drawn to opposite sidepartial disability, rated one-half

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e11518

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CASE.—Sergeant Augustus Reinwald, Co. G, 42d Pennsylvania Volunteers, was wounded at the battle of South Mountain, Maryland, September 14th, 1862, by a conoidal ball, which entered the left side of the face at base of nose, passed backward, and emerged from behind the right ear, separating the mastoid process of the temporal bone. He became insensible. For several hours after return of consciousness there was bleeding from mouth, ear, and eye. On September 29th, he was admitted to the Patent Office Hospital, Washington, and on October 5th sent to Ladies Home Hospital, New York City. The portio dura and third pair of nerves were paralyzed. There was loss of vision of right eye, and of sensation and mobility of right side of face. The patient was unable to swallow or open his mouth. Febrile action set in, which, together with pain in head and profuse suppuration of wound, rapidly reduced the strength of the patient. He became pale, weak, and emaciated; skin was moist, appetite poor; pulse regular, slow, and compressible; the eye was lachrymose, and the mouth drawn to opposite side. The wound in the face healed, but the posterior wound continued to discharge profusely. He was discharged on March 21st, 1863, and pensioned, his disability being rated one-half, by Pension Examiner A. B. Mott.