Watson, John a machine readable transcription Susan C. Lawrence Kenneth M. Price Kenneth J. Winkle 2011 med.d1e16627 Civil War Washington University of Nebraska–Lincoln Center for Digital Research in the Humanities
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 The following are responsible for particular readings or for changes to this file, as noted: Matthew Bosley Elizabeth Lorang Stacey Berry Elisabeth Tracey The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion. (1861–65.) Surgeon General Joseph K. Barnes, United States Army Washington, D.C. Government Printing Office Part 1 Volume 2 1870 261 Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion on special wounds and injuries of the head wounds and injuries of the head gunshot wounds gunshot fractures of the cranial bones removal of fragments after gunshot fractures of the skull fatal cases of gunshot fractures of the skull treated by elevation or removal of fragments deaths from intercurrent diseases proximate cause of death not distinctly stated fracture of frontal bone by conoidal ball ball and several small spiculæ of depressed bone removed additional proofing of transcription and encoding, edited and added keyword terms additional proofing of transcription and encoding case text extracted and transformed from larger file enriched encoding validated file encoded initial checking of OCR text against PDF; encoded

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.