Title: Lloyd, James

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), 477.

Keywords:wounds and injuries of the chestgunshot wounds of the chestinternal injuries without external woundscontusion of chestlaceration of lungs

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e19254

TEI/XML: med.d1e19254.xml


CASE.—Private James Lloyd, Co. G, 1st New Jersey Cavalry, aged 26 years, received a severe contusion of the chest, with laceration of the lungs, by a solid shot, at Sailor's Creek, Virginia, April 6th, 1865. He was at once conveyed to the field hospital of the 2d division, Cavalry Corps, where morphia was administered. On the 12th, he was transferred to the Ninth Corps Hospital; on May 7th, to Armory Square Hospital, Washington, and on May 27th, to the hospital at Whitehall, Pennsylvania, whence he was discharged from service on June 23d, 1865. He is not a pensioner. Assistant Surgeon E. J. Marsh, U. S. A., reports the case.