Title: Morgan, Patrick

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), 240.

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 left parietal bone by conoidal ballremoval of fragment of bone, space partially filled with callusnumbness of right foot and handdizziness

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e16157

TEI/XML: med.d1e16157.xml


MORGAN, PATRICK, Private, Co. B, 57th New York. Fredericksburg, December 11th, 1862. Gunshot fracture of left parietal bone by conoidal ball. Corps and Washington hospitals. Removal of a fragment of bone one and a half by two and a half inches. Space partially filled with callus. Discharged April 25, 1863. Examiner Alonzo Churchill, M. D., August 11th, 1868, reports that the pensioner suffers from dizziness and numbness of right foot and hand.