Title: Speigle, Anthony

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), 402.

Keywords:wounds and injuries of the neckgunshot wounds of the neckgunshot wounds of the lateral cervical regiongunshot wounds of the posterior cervical region

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e18340

TEI/XML: med.d1e18340.xml


CASE.—Private Anthony Speigle, Co. K, 5th United States Cavalry, was wounded at Beverly Ford, Virginia, June 9th, 1863, by a ball, which entered the back of the neck and passed out on the right side some two inches above the clavicle. He was sent to Washington; admitted to Lincoln Hospital on the 10th; transferred to Philadelphia on the 22d, and admitted to the McClellan Hospital on the 23d. By this time, a cicatrix had formed. He was returned to duty cured on August 23d, 1863. Speigle is not a pensioner.