Weld, S. a machine readable transcription Susan C. Lawrence Kenneth M. Price Kenneth J. Winkle 2011 med.d1e8471 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 121 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 mental aberration such lesions of brain as led to insanity terminated fatally conoidal musket ball struck vertex of head, producing open wound, denuding portion of periosteum 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

WELD, S., Corporal, Co. K, 19th Maine Volunteers, aged 31 years, was wounded, at the battle of the Po River, Virginia, May 13th, 1864, by a conoidal musket ball, which struck at the vertex of the head, producing an open wound three inches in length and one in breadth, and denuding a portion of bone of its periosteum. He was admitted into the Mount Pleasant Hospital, Washington, from the field, May 16th, and thence transferred, on the 19th, to the hospital at Annapolis. Death resulted on June 5th, 1864. The case is reported by Surgeon B. A. Vanderkieft, U. S. V.