Title: Wagner, Charles

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), 238.

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 affectedpistol ball fracture of temporalinsane, vertigo, headache, partial paralysis, inability to co-ordinate action of musclesinsanitytotal disability

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e16084

TEI/XML: med.d1e16084.xml


WAGNER, CHARLES, Private, Co. L, 1st New York Cavalry, aged 25 years. Pistol ball fracture of temporal. Washington, June 26th, 1865. Armory Square Hospital. Removal of fragments by Surgeon D. W. Bliss, U. S. V., and ligation of posterior auricular. Transferred to Harewood Hospital August 15th; discharged October 12th, 1865. Pension Office reports, July 10th, 1868, disability total. Examiner P. S. Treadwell, December 13th, 1869, states that insanity is said to have ensued.