Sheffler, John a machine readable transcription Susan C. Lawrence Kenneth M. Price Kenneth J. Winkle 2011 med.d1e6728 Civil War Washington University of Nebraska–Lincoln Center for Digital Research in the Humanities
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 The following are responsible for particular readings or for changes to this file, as noted: Matthew Bosley Elizabeth Lorang Stacey Berry Elisabeth Tracey The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion. (1861–65.) Surgeon General Joseph K. Barnes, United States Army Washington, D.C. Government Printing Office Part 1 Volume 2 1870 104 Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion on special wounds and injuries of the head wounds and injuries of the head gunshot wounds gunshot contusions of the cranial bones contusion of the skull without fracture exfoliation gunshot flesh wound of head several exfoliations of bone removed permanent disability, constant headache and dizziness gunshot contusion of cranium ball injured frontal and parietal bones additional proofing of transcription and encoding, edited and added keyword terms additional proofing of transcription and encoding additional proofing of transcription and encoding case text extracted and transformed from larger file enriched encoding validated file encoded initial checking of OCR text against PDF; encoded

SHEFFLER, JOHN, Private, Co. D, 45th Pennsylvania Volunteers, aged 44 years, received, at the battle of Cold Harbor, Virginia, June 3d, 1864, a gunshot flesh wound of the head. He was on the same day admitted to the hospital of the 2d division, Ninth Corps, on June 10th, sent to the Emory Hospital, Washington, D. C., on April 9th, sent to the Cuyler Hospital, Philadelphia, and, on May 10th, transferred to the Mower Hospital, where he was discharged from the service on June 22d, 1865, on account of gunshot contusion of the cranium. Pension Examining Surgeon Edward Smith reports, July 20th, 1865, that the ball injured the frontal and right parietal bones, and that several exfoliations of bone had been removed; that the patient complained of constant headache and dizziness, and the examiner rated his disability at "three-fourths, and probably permanent."