Title: McLaury, Richard S.

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), 234.

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 skullrecovered after gunshot fractures of the skulldeafnessgenerally associated with impairment of other special senses or of mental facultiesfracture of right parietal, slight wound of scrotumdefective hearing and visiongeneral health seriously underminedintellect impairedtotal disability

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e16033

TEI/XML: med.d1e16033.xml


CASE.—Private Richard S. McLaury, Co. G, 101st New York Volunteers, received, in the engagement near Chantilly, Virginia, September 1st, 1862, a fracture of the right parietal, and a slight wound of the scrotum. He was conveyed to Washington and admitted to Douglas Hospital. On October 25th, a piece of bone was removed from the skull; otherwise the wound did well, and the patient was sent to Jarvis Hospital, Baltimore, where he was discharged from the service on December 27th, 1862, and pensioned. In September, 1863, Examiners O. S. Bundy and J. G. Orton reported that this pensioner had defective hearing and vision, and that his intellect was impaired and general health seriously undermined. They rated his disability as total. No improvement is noted in the reports since that date.