Title: Hancock, John F.

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), 223.

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 skullmodified duty in hospital or garrison, physical disabilities ultimately compelled dischargefractures of upper frontal, temporal, or parietal regionsfracture of parietal bone by conoidal ballhearing imperfectdizziness

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e15745

TEI/XML: med.d1e15745.xml


HANCOCK, JOHN F., Private, Co. F, 25th Ohio, Chancellorsville, May 3d, 1863. Fracture of parietal bone by conoidal ball. Washington, Philadelphia, and Covington hospitals. Duty, December 1st, 1863; discharged July 26th, 1864. Examiner Julius Nichols, M. D., reports that pieces of bone have been removed, that the hearing is imperfect, and that the pensioner is subject to dizziness.