Title: Pollard, Lyman B.

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), 178.

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 depressiondisabilities following depressed gunshot fracturesdisorders of nerves of special sense followed depressed gunshot fractures of skulllesions or functional derangements of the optic nervesimpaired vision after depressed fractures of portions of the craniumconoidal ball fractured left parietal bone at anterior superior angleexfoliation of bone, pain, and vertigodisability total and permanentvision of right eye materially affecteddepressed fracture of left parietal bone

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e12670

TEI/XML: med.d1e12670.xml


CASE.—Private Lyman B. Pollard, Co. G, 16th Maine Volunteers, was wounded at the battle of Fredericksburg, Virginia, December 13th, 1862, by a conoidal ball, which fractured the left parietal bone at its anterior superior angle. He was admitted to hospital 2d division, First Corps, and on December 19th was sent to Fairfax Seminary Hospital, where he was discharged on March 31st, 1863, and pensioned. On February 23, 1866, Pension Examiner James Bell reported that exfoliation of bone has occurred from time to time, and that the patient suffers much from pain and vertigo. His disability was then rated at three-fourths and permanent. On October 9th, 1866, Pension Examiner John Benson reported that the exfoliation still continues and that the vision of the right eye is materially affected. His disability is rated total.