Title: Williams, A. G.

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), 225.

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 skulldischarged and pensionedrecovered after fragments of bone, fractured by gunshot projectiles, were removedpatients remained on Pension Rollgunshot fracture with depressed fracture of left frontal bonewound of templeoccipito-frontalis muscle severedattended in quartersthird pair of [cranial] nerves affecteddisability rated one-fourth and permanent

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e15853

TEI/XML: med.d1e15853.xml


CASE.—Lieutenant A. G. Williams, Co. E, 63d Pennsylvania Volunteers, received, at the battle of the the Wilderness, Virginia, May 5th, 1864, a gunshot fracture, with depression of the frontal bone, left side; also a wound of the temple; the occipito-frontalis muscle was severed. He was admitted to the hospital of the 2d division, Sixth Corps, where the depressed portions of bone were removed; thence he was conveyed to Washington, D. C., and there attended in his quarters until May 18th, when he was furloughed. He reported at the Officers' Hospital at Annapolis, Maryland, on July 27th, and on August 9th was discharged from the service by reason of Special Order No. 261, A. G. O., August 6th, 1864. He subsequently made application for a pension, and was examined by G. McCook, examining surgeon for pensions, Pittsburg​, Pennsylvania, who reported that the third pair of nerves were affected. His disability is rated at one-fourth and permanent.