Title: Urch, Thomas

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), 202.

Keywords:on special wounds and injuries of the headwounds and injuries of the headgunshot woundsgunshot fractures of the cranial bonespenetrating gunshot fractures of the skullmissiles extracted from within the craniumprojectiles penetrated cranial cavity, even imbedded in substance of cerebral hemispherespenetrating gunshot fractures of the head terminated fatallyconoidal ball entered brain through frontal bone above right eyedeath from apoplexy

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e14281

TEI/XML: med.d1e14281.xml


CASE.—Private Thomas Urch, Co. F, 211th Pennsylvania Volunteers, was wounded before Petersburg, Virginia, April 2d, 1865, by a conoidal ball which entered the brain through the frontal bone one and a half inches above the right eye. On the same day he was admitted to the hospital of the 3d division, Ninth Corps, and thence was conveyed to Armory Square Hospital, at Washington, which he entered on April 10th. An attempt was made on the following day to remove the ball, but was unsuccessful. Death from apoplexy occurred April 14th, 1865.