Title: Rowe, Charles

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 parietals, partial or total deafness resultedconoidal musket ball fractured portion of left parietal bonepartial deafness, constant pain in head, impaired memorydisability rated one-half and temporary

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e12827

TEI/XML: med.d1e12827.xml


CASE.—Private Charles Rowe, Co. K, 139th New York Volunteers, aged 21 years, was wounded at the battle of Cold Harbor, Virginia, June 3d, 1864, by a conoidal musket ball, which fractured a portion of the left parietal bone. On the same day, he was admitted to the field hospital of the Eighteenth Corps, and transferred as follows: on June 8th, to the Fairfax Seminary Hospital; on June 29th, to the McClellan Hospital, Philadelphia; on December 10th, to the Filbert Street Hospital; and on May 12th, 1865, to the Satterlee Hospital, where he was discharged on June 16th, 1865, and pensioned. On October 30th, 1865, Pension Examiner Charles Rowland reported the patient suffering from partial deafness, constant pain in the head, and impaired memory. He rates his disability one-half, and temporary.