Title: Edmonds, John E.

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), 190.

Keywords:on special wounds and injuries of the headwounds and injuries of the headgunshot woundsgunshot fractures of the cranial bonesdepressed gunshot fracture of cranial bonesremote results of depressed fracturesnecrosis of portions of outer table or of both tables of cranium, frequent results of gunshot fracturefractures of skull followed by headache and vertigoconoidal ball fractured right parietal bonefunctions of brain impairedpain in head with dizziness, increased by exercisepermanent disability

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e13812

TEI/XML: med.d1e13812.xml


CASE.—Private John E. Edmonds, Battery E, 2d New York Heavy Artillery, aged 22 years, was wounded at the battle of Petersburg, Virginia, June 18th, 1864, by a conoidal ball, which fractured the right parietal bone. He was admitted on the same day, to the 1st division, Second Corps, hospital, and was transferred to the Carver Hospital, Washington, on June 22d. The functions of the brain were found to be, in a measure, impaired. He remained in the Carver Hospital until October 25th, when he was transferred to the Ricord Hospital. Being regarded unfit for the Veteran Reserve Corps, he was discharged from service on March 22d, 1865, and pensioned. Pension Examiner Alonzo Churchill reports that the patient suffered pain in the head with dizziness, which was increased by exercise, and rates his disability more or less permanent.