Title: Murphy, George 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), 172.

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 with depressiondischarged due to disabilities of serious nature resulting from injuriesfractures of temporal bone and mastoid processmusket ball entered behind mastoid process of left temporal bone, emerged immediately exterior to right ala nasidisability rated one-half and permanenthyperæsthesia of left faceleft lachrymo-nasalnasolacrimal duct closedwound not entirely healed

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e12074

TEI/XML: med.d1e12074.xml


CASE.—Private George H. Murphy, Co. E, 11th Pennsylvania Volunteers, was wounded at Bull Run, August 30th, 1862, by a musket ball which entered behind the mastoid process of the left temporal bone, fracturing a portion, and emerged immediately exterior to right ala nasi. He was conveyed to Alexandria, and on September 3d, was admitted to the 3d division hospital. The muscles of the lower jaw were rigid, and spiculæ of the mastoid process were discharged from time to time. At the time of his discharge from service, October 23d, 1862, the wound had not entirely healed. Pension Examiner J. H. Anawalt, in a communication dated March 6th, 1867, reports that the left lachrymo-nasal​ duct had closed, the sac constantly becoming distended with secretion; that there was hyperæsthesia of left side of face; and that the patient could not bear exposure to cold without much suffering. In March, 1868, his disability was rated one-half and permanent.