Ramsey, Crowell J. a machine readable transcription Susan C. Lawrence Kenneth M. Price Kenneth J. Winkle 2011 med.d1e15189 Civil War Washington University of Nebraska–Lincoln Center for Digital Research in the Humanities
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 The following are responsible for particular readings or for changes to this file, as noted: Matthew Bosley Elizabeth Lorang Stacey Berry Elisabeth Tracey The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion. (1861–65.) Surgeon General Joseph K. Barnes, United States Army Washington, D.C. Government Printing Office Part 1 Volume 2 1870 217 Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion on special wounds and injuries of the head wounds and injuries of the head gunshot wounds gunshot fractures of the cranial bones removal of fragments after gunshot fractures of the skull exfoliation and removal of necrosed or detached fragments of cranial bones after gunshot injuries recovered, slight disabilities, returned to duty musket ball fractured and depressed upper posterior portion of cranium right of median line flesh wound of hand cerebral symptoms caused by depression of portion of fractured cranium, fragment removed additional proofing of transcription and encoding, edited and added keyword terms additional proofing of transcription and encoding case text extracted and transformed from larger file enriched encoding validated file encoded initial checking of OCR text against PDF; encoded

CASE.—Private Crowell J. Ramsey, Co. C, 4th Maine Volunteers, aged 21 years, was wounded at the battle of Fredericksburg, Virginia, December 13th, 1862, by a musket ball, which fractured and depressed the upper posterior portion of the cranium, a little to the right of the median line; he also received a slight flesh wound of the left hand. He was conveyed to the regimental field hospital, and on the 15th, was transferred to the 3d division hospital, Alexandria, in a convalescent condition. On January 7th, 1863, he was sent to Lovell Hospital, Portsmouth Grove, Rhode Island, and on March 2d, 1863, returned to duty. On the 15th of June, he entered 2d division hospital, Alexandria, with cerebral symptoms, caused by depression of a portion of the fractured cranium, a fragment of which was removed. By the 1st of September, the wound was entirely closed, all cerebral symptoms had disappeared, and on the 15th of January, 1864, he was returned to duty. He is not a pensioner.