Fragments Of Expectorated Clothing From The Battle Of Gettysburg

Abstract

Late on the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg, John B. Callis of the 7th Wisconsin Volunteers (part of the famous Iron Brigade) survived a gunshot wound "by a ball . . . which entered the right side, immediately over the tenth rib, midway between the sternum and spinal column, fractured the rib, passed downward and backward, and lodged."

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 2016
Accession Number
AD1066802

Entities

People

  • Tim Jr Clarke

Organizations

  • National Museum of Health and Medicine

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Central America
  • Civil War
  • Department Of Defense
  • Fabrics
  • Governments
  • Health Services
  • Hospitals
  • Lower Extremity
  • Military Medicine
  • Spinal Column
  • United States
  • War
  • Wisconsin

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  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.
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