Title: Whitmore, George D.

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 temporal and parietal bones by conoidal ballseveral fragments of bone removed

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e16633

TEI/XML: med.d1e16633.xml


WHITMORE, GEORGE D., Private, Co. F, 37th Massachusetts, aged 25 years. Weldon Railroad, April 2, 1865. Fracture of temporal and parietal by a conoidal ball. Corps and Washington hospitals. Removal of several fragments of bone April 14th. Died on the same day.