Title: Wagoner, J.

Source text: The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion. (1861-65.), Part 3, Volume 2 (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1883), 29.

Keywords:wounds and injuries of the lower extremitiesflesh wounds of the lower extremitiesshot flesh woundsflesh wounds of the lower limbs unattended by primary injury of the large nerves or blood-vesselsperi-articular wounds of knee jointshot injury involving knee without lesion of osseous surfacespneumoniainflammation extending all around jointlungs diseased throughout entire extentautopsy performed

Civil War Washington ID: med.d2e1527

TEI/XML: med.d2e1527.xml


CASE 60.—Private J. Wagoner, Co. F, 116th Pennsylvania, aged 23 years, was wounded at Petersburg, June 22, 1864, and admitted to the field hospital of the 1st division, Second Corps, where Surgeon D. H. Houston, 2d Delaware, recorded: "Flesh wound of left thigh by a minié ball." Surgeon G. L. Pancoast, U. S. V., contributed the pathological specimen (Cat. Surg. Sect., 1866, p. 333, Spec. 3260) with the following notes of the case: "The patient entered Finley Hospital, Washington, July 1st, with shot wound through left knee joint. The bone was not injured. He died July 17, 1864. Two days before death signs of pneumonia presented themselves. An autopsy was made by Acting Assistant Surgeon G. H. Hopkins, who found extensive inflammation extending all around the joint and its neighboring parts. The femur and tibia were denuded of cartilage around the edges. In the cavity of the thorax there was considerable pleuritic adhesion, with effusion of thick pus, the lungs themselves being very much congested and hepatized—in fact, the lungs were diseased throughout their entire extent. There was also effusion both in the pleura and pericardium." The specimen consists of the bones of the injured knee joint.