Title: Johnson, 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), 166.

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 depressionmeagre details of symptoms and treatment, impracticable to verify diagnoses from evidence presentedfracture and loss of portion of occipital bone by piece of shelllimbs and faculties normal,strength impairedable to earn only partial subsistencepartial disability, rated one half

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e11625

TEI/XML: med.d1e11625.xml


CASE.—Private Thomas Johnson, Co. G, 146th New York Volunteers, aged 42 years. Fracture and loss of a portion of the occipital bone by a piece of shell. Petersburg, June 24th, 1864. Treated at division, Alexandria, Carver, and Ira Harris hospitals. Discharged from service May 4th, 1865, and pensioned, his disability being rated one half. At the latter date, his limbs and faculties were normal, but his strength was impaired, and he was only able to earn partial subsistence.