Title: Winsor, William 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), 179.

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 auditory nervesgunshot fractures of the cranium, partial or total deafness resultedshell fractured portion of left side of craniumpower of hearing somewhat impaired

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e12772

TEI/XML: med.d1e12772.xml


CASE.—Captain William H. Winsor, Co. F, 18th Massachusetts Volunteers, was wounded by a shell at the battle of Fredericksburg, December 13th, 1862, which fractured a portion of the left side of the cranium. He was admitted to the hospital of Griffin's division, Fifth Corps, and thence was sent to Washington for treatment. He resigned March 15th, 1863. The power of hearing was somewhat impaired.