Title: Thompson, William

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 ballremoval of ball and fragment of boneinflammation of brain

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e16550

TEI/XML: med.d1e16550.xml


THOMPSON, WILLIAM, Private, Co. E, 10th Massachusetts, aged 41 years. Spottsylvania​, May 12th, 1864. Fracture of frontal by conoidal ball. Corps and Emory hospitals. Removal of ball and fragment of bone May 18th. Inflammation of brain. Died May 30th, 1864.