Title: Cleveland, William P.

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 affectedshell fracture of frontal, bone splinters removedbone gone over right eyeright eye weakdisability rated three-fourths.

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e16103

TEI/XML: med.d1e16103.xml


CLEVELAND, WILLIAM P., Private, Co. K, 51st New York, aged 23 years. Petersburg, July 7th, 1864. Shell fracture of frontal. Bone splinters removed. Ninth Corps hospital. Fairfax Seminary Hospital. Discharged from service January 21st, 1865, and pensioned. Examiner Samuel Hutchings reports, March, 1866, that the bone is gone over the right eye, which is weak, and rates the disability at three-fourths.