Title: Winsor, W. H.

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), 118.

Keywords:on special wounds and injuries of the headwounds and injuries of the headgunshot woundsgunshot contusions of the cranial bonescontusion of the skull without fracturedeafnessgunshot wound of headscalp wound with contusion of templeloss of hearing on that side

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e8177

TEI/XML: med.d1e8177.xml


WINSOR, W. H., Captain, Co. F, 18th Massachusetts Volunteers, received, at the battle of Fredericksburg, Virginia, December 13th, 1862, a gunshot wound of the head. He was admitted, on the same day, to the field hospital of the 1st division of the Fifth Corps. On December 17th, 1862, he reported to Surgeon Thomas Antisell, at Washington, D. C., who reported the injury as a scalp wound, with contusion of the left temple, with loss of hearing on that side. He was furloughed on December 19th for twenty days. Resigned March 15th, 1863. His name is not found on the Pension Rolls.