Title: Lewis, Lucian

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 affectedfracture of occipital by conoidal musket ballcephalgiaimpaired mind

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e16097

TEI/XML: med.d1e16097.xml


LEWIS, LUCIAN, Private, Co. D, 69th New York, aged 18 years. Petersburg, September 30th, 1864. Fracture of occipital by conoidal musket ball. Corps, Judiciary Square, and Satterlee hospitals. Bone splinters removed and dura mater laid bare. Discharged May 16th, 1865. Pension Office reports him a pensioner, and that he suffers from cephalalgia and impaired mind.