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Pvt. Walter Wheeler (CP 946), National Museum of Health and Medicine

Description: Private Walter Wheeler, Company B, 91st New York volunteers, shows a gunshot wound to his head. This wound was received near Petersburg, Virginia on April 2nd, 1865. Caption reads: “Gunshot wound of side of head. Pvt. Walter Wheeler Co. B 91st N.Y.”

History is on reverse: “Walter Wheeler. Hospital Number 20,870. Walter Wheeler, Private Co. B. 91st N.Y. Vols., age 37, was admitted into Harewood U.S.A. General Hospital, April 19th 1865, with gunshot wound of the right side of the head. The wound was received before Petersburg, Va., April 2nd 1865. The ball entering above the anterior zygomatic articulation and passing through temporal fossa emerged just above the external meatus. April 22nd 1865 he had a slight hemorrhage from the common temporal artery which was ligated. The wound of entrance and exit was communicated when it was found that a small portion of the bone at the point of exit was denuded of pericranium. A portion of bone was subsequently removed and the patient is now (June 16) doing well. Harewood U.S.A. General Hospital, R.B. Bontecou, Surgeon U.S. Vols., In charge. There was fracture and depression of temporal bone in the above case.”

Date: circa 1865

Photo ID: CP 946

Source collection: OHA 75: Contributed Photographs

Repository: National Museum of Health and Medicine, Otis Historical Archives

Rights: No known restrictions upon publication, physical copy retained by National Museum of Health and Medicine. Publication and high resolution image requests should be directed to the NMHM (<a href="http://www.medicalmuseum.mil/" rel="nofollow">www.medicalmuseum.mil/</a>)
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