Title: Howeth, John

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), 257.

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 skullencephalitis, undistinguished by special complicationsfracture of frontal bone by conoidal ballball and fragments removedtraumatic encephalitis

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e16538

TEI/XML: med.d1e16538.xml


HOWETH, JOHN, Lieutenant, Co. C, 6th New Jersey. Chancellorsville, May 3d, 1863. Fracture of frontal by conoidal ball. Removal of ball and fragments. Aloysius Hospital, Washington, May 13th. Traumatic encephalitis. Died May 14th, 1863.