Title: McConville, Henry

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), 255.

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 skullfatal cases of gunshot fractures of the skull treated by the removal or elevation fragmentstreated by operation, not by formal trephiningextent of injury ascertained with precision, organic alterations accurately observedconoidal musket ball entered right parietal eminence, caused extensive comminution, lodged in brain substancegunshot wound of the neckgunshot wound of the chestspiculæ removed from fractured cranium, coma supervened

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e16466

TEI/XML: med.d1e16466.xml


CASE.—Adjutant Henry McConville, 25th Massachusetts Volunteers, aged 25 years, was wounded at the battle of Cold Harbor, Virginia, June 3d, 1864, by a conoidal musket ball, which entered the right parietal eminence, causing extensive comminution, and lodged in the substance of the brain. He received, in the same engagement, two other wounds; one in the neck and the other in the chest. OnJune 3d, he was admitted to the Eighteenth Corps hospital, and thence transferred, on June 6th, to the Armory Square Hospital, Washington. Simple dressings were applied to the head. On June 11th, several spiculæ were removed from the fractured cranium. Coma supervened and the case terminated fatally on June 12th, 1864.