Title: Coty, Jesse

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), 175.

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 depressiongunshot fracture of cranial bones accompanied by hemiplegia or paraplegiapiece of shell fractured posterior superior angle of parietal bone and injured brainincapacity from dimness of sight and partial hemiplegiadisability rated three-fourths and permanent

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e12371

TEI/XML: med.d1e12371.xml


CASE.—Private Jesse Coty, Co. A, 6th Vermont Volunteers, aged 30 years, was wounded before Petersburg, Virginia, April 2d, 1865, by a piece of shell, which fractured the posterior superior angle of the left parietal bone and injured the brain. On the same day he was taken to the regimental field hospital, and thence transferred to the Stanton Hospital at Washington, where he was admitted April 8th, 1865. The treatment, so far as recorded, consisted of simple dressings. He recovered, and was discharged July 1st, 1865. In July, 1868, he was pensioned for an incapacity resulting from dimness of sight and partial hemiplegia of the right side. His disability is rated three-fourths and permanent.