Title: Deal, George

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 musket ball penetrated cranium, passed through anterior portion of cerebrum

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e14308

TEI/XML: med.d1e14308.xml


CASE.—Private George Deal, Co. D, 148th New York Volunteers, aged 23 years, was wounded at the battle of Coal HarborCold Harbor, Virginia, June 3d, 1864, by a conoidal musket ball, which penetrated the cranium and passed through the anterior portion of the cerebrum. He was admitted to the Eighteenth Corps Field Hospital, and on the 7th of June transferred to the Carver Hospital, Washington, D. C. The particulars in the progress of the case are not known. Death took place on the 8th of June, 1864.