Title: Platt, Harvey

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 injuriesconoidal musket ball fractured skullvertigo and pain in headdisability three-fourthswounds and injuries of the lower extremities

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e12107

TEI/XML: med.d1e12107.xml


CASE.—Private Harvey Platt, Co. A, 7th Indiana Volunteers, aged 25 years, was wounded at the battle of Spottsylvania​ Court House, May 12th, 1864, by a conoidal musket ball which fractured the skull. In the same engagement, he received a wound of the right leg. He was admitted to the hospital of the 4th division, Fifth Corps; thence was sent to the Mount Pleasant hospital at Washington on the 16th, and was transferred, on the 18th, to McKim's Mansion Hospital, Baltimore. After several other transfers, he was finally admitted into hospital No. 4, at Madison, Wisconsin, on September 1st, 1864, and discharged from service on January 20th, 1865, and pensioned. Pension Examiner M. H. Harding states that the patient is disqualified for manual labor during the warm season, owing to vertigo and pain in the head, which seriously impair his health. He rates his disability three-fourths.