Title: Foster, Caleb R.

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), 222.

Keywords:on special wounds and injuries of the headwounds and injuries of the headgunshot woundsgunshot fractures of the cranial bonesremoval of fragments after gunshot fractures of the skullexfoliation and removal of necrosed or detached fragments of cranial bones after gunshot injuriesoperations for the removal of detached fragments of bone after depressed gunshot fractures of the skullfragments of bone removed after gun shot fractures of skull, patients recovered and returned to dutyfractures on upper anterior or on superior lateral portions of craniumfracture at vertex by conoidal ball

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e15582

TEI/XML: med.d1e15582.xml


FOSTER, CALEB R., Private, Co. B, 102d Pennsylvania, aged 17 years. Wilderness, May 5th, 1864. Fracture at vertex by conoidal ball. Finley and Satterlee Hospitals. Fragments of external table removed June 17th. Duty, March 17th, 1865.