Title: Van Valkenburg, Calvin

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 affectedfracture of frontal by musket ball near junction of coronal and sagittal suturesbone fragments removed, immediate relief of symptoms of compressiongiddiness, pain in the headdisability rated three-fourths and permanent

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e16169

TEI/XML: med.d1e16169.xml


VAN VALKENBURG, CALVIN, Private, Co. I, 91st New York, aged 22 years. South Side Railroad, April 1st, 1865. Fracture of frontal by musket ball near junction of coronal and sagittal sutures. Fifth Corps, Lincoln, and Ira Harris hospitals. April 11, fragments removed by Surgeon J. C. McKee, with immediate relief of the symptoms of compression.¹ In 1865, Examiner W. H. Craig reported that this pensioner suffered from giddiness and pain in the head; and in July, 1868, the Pension Office reports that he is still a pensioner, his disability rated at three-fourths and permanent.


¹ See photograph 9, Vol. III, of Contributed Surgical Photographs, A. M. M.