Title: Jones, David

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), 82.

Keywords:on special wounds and injuries of the headwounds and injuries of the headgunshot woundsgunshot wounds of the scalphæmorrhage, hemorrhagesecondary hemorrhage from wounds of scalpsuccessfully treated by ligating wounded vesselpatient deserted from hospitalconoidal musket ball entered above and lateral to eye, passed through integuments over temporal region, and emergedhæmorrhage of temporal artery, artery ligated in its continuityerysipelas

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e4943

TEI/XML: med.d1e4943.xml


CASE.—Private David Jones, Co. B, 1st Massachusetts Volunteers, aged 26 years, was wounded at the battle of Spottsylvania​, Virginia, May 9th, 1864, by a conoidal musket ball, which entered above and to the left of the left eye, passed in a direct line through the integuments over the temporal region, and emerged four inches from the point of entrance. He was conveyed to the Second Division Hospital at Alexandria, and, on May 21st, was transferred to Mower Hospital, Philadelphia. The wound was swollen and painful, and bled freely. On May 24th, the temporal artery was ligated in its continuity, in front of the ear, and half an inch below the wound, by Acting Assistant Surgeon S. D. Marshall. An attack of erysipelas was checked by local applications of iodine and of lead water. The patient recovered, and was, on July 7th, 1864, sent to the hospital at Beverly, New Jersey, whence he deserted on July 23d, 1864.