Title: Rhoades, Benjamin F.

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 affectedgunshot fracture of both parietal bones near lambdoidal sutureremoval of bonedisqualified for manual labor

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e16124

TEI/XML: med.d1e16124.xml


RHOADES, BENJAMIN F., Private, Co. I, 93d Pennsylvania, aged 24 years. Wilderness, May 5th, 1864. Gunshot fracture of both parietal bones, near lambdoidal suture. Washington and Philadelphia hospitals. Removal of bone by Acting Assistant Surgeon Nordman. Discharged February 18th, 1865. March 4th, 1868, Examiner John Levergood reports that the pensioner is disqualified for manual labor.