Title: Watson, 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), 261.

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 frontal bone by conoidal ballball and several small spiculæ of depressed bone removed

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e16627

TEI/XML: med.d1e16627.xml


WATSON, JOHN, Private, Co. I, 5th New Hampshire, aged 21 years. Fort Steadman, March 25th, 1865. Fracture of frontal by a conoidal ball. Corps and Washington hospitals. Removal of several small spiculæ of depressed bone and the ball. Death, May 3d, 1865.