Title: Horan, Michael

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), 259.

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 elevation or removal of fragmentsdeaths from intercurrent diseasesproximate cause of death not distinctly statedfracture of parietal bone by conoidal ballloose bone fragments removed and bone elevated

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e16598

TEI/XML: med.d1e16598.xml


HORAN, MICHAEL, Private, Co. H, 16th Michigan, aged 39 years. Petersburg, June 16th, 1864. Fracture of left parietal by conoidal ball. Field and Washington hospitals. Removal of loose bone fragments and elevation of bone July 2d. Death, July 7th, 1864.