Title: Farrell, 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), 243.

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 skullrecovery after removal of fragments of skull for gunshot fracturesurvived with disabilities of various degrees, brain more or less seriously affectednames not placed upon Pension Rollconoidal musket ball fractured skullscales of bone taken from wound by forcepscomplained only of nervousness, not disabled by wound

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e16206

TEI/XML: med.d1e16206.xml


CASE.—Corporal Patrick Farrell, Co. C, 140th New York Volunteers, aged 26 years, was wounded at the battle of Spottsylvania​, Virginia, May 9th, 1864, by a conoidal musket ball, which fractured the skull. He was at once admitted to the 1st division, Fifth Corps, hospital, and thence, on the 12th, sent to the 3d division hospital at Alexandria. A few small scales of bone were taken from the wound by forceps, but no untoward symptoms manifested themselves in the progress of the case. On June 6th, the patient was furloughed. He was discharged the service September 6th, 1864. On February 25th, 1864, Pension Examiner H. T. Montgomery reports this man to be perfectly healthy looking, and complaining only of nervousness. He does not think him disabled by the wound.