Title: Baker, John C.

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), 101.

Keywords:on special wounds and injuries of the headwounds and injuries of the headgunshot woundsgunshot contusions of the cranial bonescontusion of the skull without fracturecomplicated by erysipelasconoidal ball caused flesh wound of side of head

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e6292

TEI/XML: med.d1e6292.xml


BAKER, JOHN C., Private, 104th Ohio Volunteers, aged 22 years, was wounded, at the battle of Franklin, Tennessee, November 30th, 1864, by a conoidal ball, which caused a flesh wound of the left side of the head. He was conveyed to Nashville, and thence sent to Jeffersonville, Indiana, on January 11th, 1865, suffering from erysipelas. On February 23d, he was transferred to Lincoln Hospital, Washington, D. C., and, on June 17th, 1865, was mustered out of service.