Title: Phillips, Oliver M.

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 facultiesconoidal musket ball entered near superior angle of occipital bone, emerged abovepieces of bone removeddepressed cicatrix near vertexconstant pain in headtotally deaf in right ear

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e16039

TEI/XML: med.d1e16039.xml


CASE.—Private Oliver M. Phillips, Co. B, 58th Massachusetts Volunteers, aged 29 years, was wounded at the battle of Cold Harbor, Virginia, June 3d, 1864, by a conoidal musket ball, which entered near the superior angle of the occipital bone and emerged about one inch above. He was admitted to the hospital of the 2d division, Ninth Corps, and on June 7th, sent to the 1st division hospital at Alexandria, where several pieces of bone were removed. Here he remained until February 25th, 1865, when he was sent to the Fairfax Seminary Hospital. He recovered, and was discharged from the service on May 29th, 1865. The Pension Examiner reported, September 21st, 1865, that there was a depressed cicatrix near the vertex, half an inch wide and three inches in length, and that the patient was totally deaf in the right ear, and that he had constant pain in the head.