Title: E——, Alexander

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 body of left malar bone and produced comminuted fracture, passed to the right through orbit, fractured ethmoid bone, lodged in right anterior base of brainsurgeon's probe passed into braindeath from exhaustion and congestionautopsy performed

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e14338

TEI/XML: med.d1e14338.xml


CASE.—Sergeant Alexander E——, Co. B, 56th North Carolina Regiment, aged 30 years, was wounded at Petersburg, March 28th, 1865, by a conoidal ball, which entered the body of the left malar bone, producing a comminuted fracture, passed from left to right through the orbit, fracturing the ethmoid bone, and lodged in the anterior portion of the base of brain on the right side. He was conveyed to a field hospital, and on March 30th was admitted to Lincoln Hospital, Washington, being nearly comatose. The probe could be passed into the brain. Death occurred on April 2d, 1865, from exhaustion and congestion. The autopsy revealed the course of the ball as above stated. The pathological specimen is No. 85, Sect. I, A. M. M., and consists of nine fragments, chiefly from the malar bones, and the ball, separated into two parts. The specimen, with the history, was contributed by Acting Assistant Surgeon T. P. Arthur.