Title: Gipple, Emanuel

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), 239.

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 temporal bonepiece of outer table of bone removeddisability one-half and permanent

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e16117

TEI/XML: med.d1e16117.xml


GIPPLE, EMANUEL, Co. I, 93d Pennsylvania, aged 24 years. Spottsylvania​, May 12th, 1864. Shell fracture of temporal bone. Corps, Washington, Philadelphia, and Harrisburg hospitals. Discharged June 13th, 1865. June 1st, 1867, Examiner John Levergood, M. D., states that a piece of the outer table of bone has been removed. Disability one-half and permanent.