Title: Brunnello, Pietro

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), 107.

Keywords:on special wounds and injuries of the headwounds and injuries of the headgunshot woundsgunshot contusions of the cranial bonescontusion of the skull without fracturepersistent pain in the headgunshot contusion of vertex of cranium by fragment of shell, much laceration of scalpsevere local pain at seat of injury

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e6952

TEI/XML: med.d1e6952.xml


BRUNNELLO, PIETRO, Private, Co. F, 55th New York Volunteers. Gunshot contusion of the vertex of the cranium by a fragment of shell, with much laceration of the scalp. Malvern Mill, Virginia, July 1st, 1862. Treated at Carver Hospital, Washington, and returned to duty August 13th, 1862. On November 12th, 1862, he was admitted to Episcopal Hospital, Philadelphia, under the care of Doctor W. S. Forbes. He was suffering from severe local pain at the seat of injury. He was discharged from the service on February 25th, 1863. His name does not appear on the Pension Roll.