Fredrick Hohmann, Hospital Number 20, 487

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Title: Fredrick Hohmann, Hospital Number 20, 487
Creator: Harewood General Hospital
Photographer unidentified
Contributor: Bontecou, Reed Brockway, 1824-1907
Fredrick Hohmann, Hospital Number 20, 487
Harewood General Hospital
Reed B. (Brockway) Bontecou 1824-1907
Published / Created: 1865
Publication Place: Washington, D.C.
Description: Fredrick Hohmann, Private, Company H, 1st Michigan Cavalry, age 27, wounded at Petersburg April 2nd 1865, was admitted to Harewood U.S.A. General Hospital, from City Point Va., April 5th 1865, with gunshot wound of thigh immediately above the knee joint, the ball entering on the upper surface of internal condyle of right knee, passing half an inch above the knee and parallel with it, to external condyle. When admitted, the patient was in good condition, with the exception of the parts in vicinity of the wound being very much swollen and inflamed, the joint not being implicated, the limb was kept perfectly dry and quiet. April 27, 1865, the wound is almost entirely healed, with no implication of joint, and constitutional condition of patient good.
FREDRICK HOHMANN.
Harewood U.S.A. General Hospital,
Hospital Number 20487
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
Fredrick Hohmann, Hospital Number 20, 487
Harewood General Hospital
Reed B. (Brockway) Bontecou 1824-1907
Subject (Topic): Leg—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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