Cole, Andrew a machine readable transcription Susan C. Lawrence Kenneth M. Price Kenneth J. Winkle 2011 med.d1e17046 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 289 Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion wounds and injuries of the head trephining after gunshot fractures of the skull physical disability, discharged from service total disability discharged and pensioned 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 Andrew Cole, Co. D, 145th Pennsylvania Volunteers, was wounded at the battle of Fredericksburg, Virginia, December 13th, 1862, by a conoidal ball, which fractured the frontal bone, right side, near the coronal suture. Another ball passed through the muscular substance of the thigh. He was admitted to Harewood Hospital, Washington, December 17th, 1862. On December 23d the skull was trephined, and loose fragments of bone were removed. No inflammation existed, and wound suppurated freely; several pieces of bone were removed at different periods, but in March, 1863, the wound had nearly healed. He was discharged December 21st, 1863, and pensioned. In February, 1864, Pension Examiner D. E. Belknap reports that the wound is still open and discharging, and that more bone will probably come away. The disability is rated total.