David H. Key

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Title: David H. Key
Creator: Harewood General Hospital
Photographer unidentified
Contributor: Bontecou, Reed Brockway, 1824-1907
David H. Key
Harewood General Hospital
Reed B. (Brockway) Bontecou 1824-1907
Published / Created: 1865
Publication Place: Washington, D.C.
Description: David H. Key, Ser't, Co. G, 3rd N.J. Cav., aged 23, was admitted to Harewood U.S.A. Gen'l Hospital April 19, 1865, with gunshot wound through the mouth, the ball carrying away canine and first bicuspid teeth of right lower jaw, and first bicuspid tooth of right upper jaw, wounding tongue, passing inside of ramus of lower jaw, left side, and lodging beneath integuments posterior to angle of jaw. Also gunshot (flesh) wound right arm, middle third, anterior aspect, ball passing through from before. Wounded April 6th, 1865, at battle of Harper's Farm, Va. April 7th, 1865.—Removal of ball on the field by counter opening, half an inch posterior to angle of jaw, and one inch below lobule of ear.—Progressed favorably. Transferred to U.S. Gen'l Hospital, Newark, N.J., May 2nd, 1865. Doing well.
David H. Key.
Harewood U.S.A. General Hospital,
R. B. BONTECOU,
Surgeon U.S. Vols., In Charge.
Extent: 7.5 in. x 5.5 in. (approximate) oval mounted on 11 in. x 9 in. board
Language: English

Format: still image
Genre: Albumen Print
Resource Type: Prints & Photographs
Subject (Geographic): Washington, D.C
Subject (Name): Bontecou, Reed Brockway, 1824-1907
David H. Key
Harewood General Hospital
Reed B. (Brockway) Bontecou 1824-1907
Subject (Topic): Arm—Wounds and injuries
Head—Wounds and injuries
Medical photography—patients
Medical photography—United States—19th century
United States—History—Civil War, 1861-1865—Medical and sanitary affairs

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