Gritzmacher, William a machine readable transcription Susan C. Lawrence Kenneth M. Price Kenneth J. Winkle 2011 med.d1e9210 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 129 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 gunshot fractures of the external table of the cranium alone explosive musket ball struck frontal bone at supra-orbital ridge, fractured outer table as pensioner wounds still discharged and vision impaired upper eyelid contracted, prevented closure of eye gunshot fractures of the outer table of the skull fractures of the external wall of the frontal sinus additional proofing of transcription and encoding, edited and added keyword terms 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

CASE.—Private William Gritzmacher, Co. C, 5th Wisconsin Volunteers, aged 19 years, was wounded at the battle of SpottsylvaniaSpotsylvania, Virginia, May 12th, 1864, by an explosive musket ball which struck the frontal bone at the left supra-orbital ridge and fractured the outer table. He was, on the same day, admitted to the hospital of the 1st division, Sixth Corps, and on the 17th sent to Washington, D. C., and admitted into the Emory Hospital. On June 6th he was transferred to the Patterson Park Hospital, Baltimore, and on August 16th to the Chester Hospital. The treatment so far consisted of simple dressings. He recovered, and was transferred on May 16th, 1865, to the Veteran Reserve Corps, and discharged the service of the United States July 22d, 1865. Pension Examining Surgeon John Phillips reports, on May 9th, 1867, that this pensioner's wounds were still discharging, and that the right upper eyelid was so contracted as to prevent closure of his eye, and that his vision was impaired.