Title: Nengebaur, M.

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), 315.

Keywords:injuries of pelvisinjuries of parts contained in the pelviswounds of the rectumstercoral fistulæ after shot wounds of the rectumrectal constriction, defecation difficultshot perforation of both hipsshot perforation of rectumrectal strictureball entered natis and passed out opposite side, passed through rectumwound of gluteal region of each side, injury of rectum

Civil War Washington ID: med.d2e36010

TEI/XML: med.d2e36010.xml


CASE 908.—Private M. Nengebaur, Co. B, 11th New Jersey, aged 20 years, was wounded at Petersburg, June 16, 1864. Surgeon O. Evarts, 20th Indiana, reported a shot perforation of both hips. Surgeon A. F. Sheldon, U. S. V, from Campbell Hospital, reported a shot perforation of the rectum. Assistant Surgeon J. T. Calhoun, U.S.A., from the Ward Hospital, Newark, confirmed the diagnosis of the field surgeon. Pension Examiner J.H. Clark reported, July 17, 1865, that "the ball entered the left natis and passed out at a corresponding point on the right, passing through the rectum, producing constriction, and making defecation difficult." Examiners Woodhull, Osborne, and Mercer reported, September 11, 1873, "wound of gluteal region of each side, injury of rectum."