Title: Thatcher, D. C.

Source text: The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion. (1861-65.), Part 2, Volume 2 (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1876), 920.

Keywords:wounds and injuries of the upper extremitieswounds and operations in the forearmshot wounds of the forearmcontusions and partial fracturesshot contusions of the radius and ulnavulnus sclopetarium of forearm, ball grazed bone

Civil War Washington ID: med.d2e31262

TEI/XML: med.d2e31262.xml


CASE 1849.—Private D. C. Thatcher, Co. I, 12th New York, was wounded at Fredericksburg, December 13, 1862, and was admitted to Lincoln Hospital, Washington, December 26, 1862. Surgeon Henry Bryant, U. S. A., noted "vulnus sclopetarium of left forearm, the ball grazing the bone." This soldier was returned to duty May 7, 1863. Not a pensioner.