Title: Branninger, William

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), 237.

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 skullforeign bodiesrecovery after removal of fragments of skull for gunshot fractureextraneous substances as cloth or felt or leather extracted with bone splinterssurvived with disabilities of various degrees, brain more or less seriously affectedshell fracture of right side of occipital bonefragments of bone removed, large fragments removed after he left hospitalmind seriously impaired

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e16070

TEI/XML: med.d1e16070.xml


BRANNINGER, WILLIAM, Private, Co. I, 183d. Ohio, aged 43 years. Franklin, November 30th, 1864. Shell fracture of right side of occipital, Nashville, Jeffersonville, Washington, and Philadelphia hospitals. Fragments of bone removed April 22d, 1865. Wound healed May 19th. Discharged July 24th, 1865. August 15th, 1865, Examiner W. Owens, M. D., reports that the patient's mind was seriously impaired, and that large fragments of bone were removed after he left the hospital.