Title: Stahl, Adolph

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), 177.

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 depressed fractures of cranial bones followed by epilepsypiece of shell fractured parietal boneepilepsy

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e12574

TEI/XML: med.d1e12574.xml


CASE.—Private Adolph Stahl, Co. B, 119th New York Volunteers, aged 20 years, was wounded at Fredericksburg, May 3d, 1863, by a piece of shell, which fractured the right parietal bone. He was treated in the field hospital for several weeks, and on June 16th, he was admitted to the Lincoln Hospital at Washington, suffering from epilepsy. On July 9th, he was conveyed to Philadelphia, and was admitted to the Christian Street Hospital. Epilepsy continued. In March, 1864, he was transferred to the Turner's Lane Hospital, and on May 11th, 1864, was discharged from service. Not a pensioner.