Pettigrew, G. W. a machine readable transcription Susan C. Lawrence Kenneth M. Price Kenneth J. Winkle 2011 med.d2e16203 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 Sarah Synovec The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion. (1861-65.)Washington, DCGovernment Printing OfficePart 3Volume 21883389 Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion wounds and injuries of the lower extremities wounds and injuries of the knee joint excisions at the knee joint for shot injury primary excisions at the knee joint fatal cases of primary excision of the knee joint shot wound of knee, patella removed shot wound of side and knee resection of head of fibula, destroyed by ball additional proofing of transcription and encoding, identified keyword terms case text extracted and transformed from larger file Enrich Encoding, Edit and validate Validated File initial checking of OCR text; encoded P5 Encoding

CASE 601.—Lieutenant G. W. Pettigrew, Co. A, 26th Georgia, was wounded and captured at Fredericksburg, December 13, 1862. Surgeon C. J. Nordquist, 83d New York, recorded his admission to the field hospital of the 2d division, First Corps, with "shot wound of left knee; patella removed." Acting Assistant Surgeon J. D. Robinson reported that the patient was admitted to the Patent Office Hospital, Washington, December 25th, and that he died of his injury, "a shot wound of left side and knee," December 30, 1862.²

² A letter of inquiry was addressed, in February, 1868, by the editor to Dr. R. S. Dana, formerly Surgeon 107th Pennsylvania, who, in an answer dated March 23, 1868, states: "1 have written to several of the surgeons who were there, to learn if possible more of the case than I can recollect; one answer only has been returned. From all that I can learn or remember of the case, Lieutenant Pettigrew was operated on by Dr. E. G. Chase, Surgeon 104th New York, and Dr. J. F. Hutchinson, at that time Surgeon of the 107th Pennsylvania. The operation was the resection of the head of the fibula, which was destroyed by a ball, the operation not involving the knee joint proper."