Civil War Washington

CASE.—Private Thomas Thatcher, Co. K, 12th Ohio Volunteers, was wounded at Bull Run Bridge, August 27th, 1862, by a round musket ball, which entered the inner angle of the right eye, destroying that organ, passed obliquely downward and lodged at the angle of the left inferior maxilla. He was admitted to the Mansion House Hospital, Alexandria, where the ball was removed. The patient recovered and was discharged December 24th, 1862. The specimen and history of the case were contributed to the Army Medical Museum by Surgeon J. E. Summers, U. S. A. The ball, figured in the wood-cut (FIG. 158), is roughened and jagged, and there are bony particles embedded in the furrows. No application from this soldier appears upon the Pension Records, hence it may be hoped that his recovery was so complete that he did not require assistance.