Henry Morgan, Hospital Number 20, 658

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Title: Henry Morgan, Hospital Number 20, 658
Creator: Harewood General Hospital
Photographer unidentified
Contributor: Bontecou, Reed Brockway, 1824-1907
Harewood General Hospital
Henry Morgan, Hospital Number 20, 658
Reed B. (Brockway) Bontecou 1824-1907
Published / Created: 1865
Publication Place: Washington, D.C.
Description: Harewood U.S.A. General Hospital,
Henry Morgan Private Company D, 77th N.Y. Vols., age 24 years, admitted to Harewood U.S.A. General Hospital from City Point April 12th, wounded April 2nd at Petersburg Va., by a minnie ball, which entered at left superior maxillary bone, facial surface, passing inwards and downwards into the mouth destroying all the upper teeth, left side. When admitted right side of head and face very much inflamed, erysipelas closing both eyes. May 1st, the patient is now doing well.
Henry Morgan.
Hospital Number, 20.658.
R. B. BONTECOU.
Surgeon U.S. Vols., In charge.
Extent: 7.5 x 5.5 in. (approximate) oval mounted on 11 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
Harewood General Hospital
Henry Morgan, Hospital Number 20, 658
Reed B. (Brockway) Bontecou 1824-1907
Subject (Topic): 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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