Title: Kirker, Ira

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), 469.

Keywords:wounds and injuries of the chestincised wounds, contusions, and miscellaneous injuriesbayonet woundsbayonet wound of breast

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e19092

TEI/XML: med.d1e19092.xml


KIRKER, IRA, Private, Co. F, 140th Pennsylvania Volunteers, aged 21 years. Bayonet wound of right breast. Spottsylvania​, Virginia, May 12th, 1864. Treated in Harewood Hospital, Washington. Discharged from service. Not a pensioner.