Colgan, John G. a machine readable transcription Susan C. Lawrence Kenneth M. Price Kenneth J. Winkle 2011 med.d1e17002 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 286 Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion wounds and injuries of the head trephining after gunshot fractures of the skull recovery sufficient to resume modified duty in Veteran Reserve Corps permanent disability one-half disability 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

CASE.—Private John G. Colgan, Co. F, 5th New Jersey Volunteers, aged 22 years, was wounded at the battle of Chancellorsville, Virginia, May 3d, 1863, by a piece of shell, which struck the upper portion of the frontal bone, causing a fracture with depression. He was conveyed to Washington, and on May 9th admitted to Harewood Hospital, where the trephine was applied, and the depressed portion of bone removed. On May 30th, the wound was doing well, and on June 24th, 1863, the patient was transferred to Satterlee Hospital, Philadelphia, where he was assigned to the 2d battalion, Veteran Reserve Corps. This soldier was discharged the service November 22d, 1865, and pensioned. There was a large cicatrix, with depression from loss of the outer table of the os frontis, near the junction of the coronal and sagittal sutures, with tenderness upon pressure, and the patient complained of vertigo when exposed to the sun, or when undergoing active exercise. His disability is rated one-half, and probably permanent.