Title: Johnson, William J.

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 right cranium by conoidal musket ballphthisis pulmonalistotal disability

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e15782

TEI/XML: med.d1e15782.xml


JOHNSON, WILLIAM J., Private, Co. A, 2d New York Mounted Rifles, aged 17 years. Petersburg, June 25th, 1864. Fracture of cranium, right side, by conoidal musket ball. Washington and Philadelphia hospitals. Removal of large fragment of bone. Duty, January 18th, 1865; discharged August 10th, 1865. Examiner J. H. Helmer, M. D., January 10th, 1867, states that the pensioner is suffering from phthisis pulmonalis, and that his disability is total.