Charles E. Barnard, Hospital Number 20, 300

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Title: Charles E. Barnard, Hospital Number 20, 300
Creator: Harewood General Hospital
Photographer unidentified
Contributor: Bontecou, Reed Brockway, 1824-1907
Charles E. Barnard, Hospital Number 20, 300
Harewood General Hospital
Reed B. (Brockway) Bontecou 1824-1907
Published / Created: 1865
Publication Place: Washington, D.C.
Description: Charles E. Barnard, 1st Sergt, Co. F., 57th Mass. Vols., age 23, was admitted to Harewood U.S.A. General Hospital, April 2nd 1865, with gunshot flesh wound. The ball entered a little to the right of the first dorsal vertebra, and emerged at the left side of the neck. The wound was received near Petersburg, Va., March 25th 1865. The missile was supposed to be the conoidal ball. The patient did well and was transferred North, April 8, 1865.
Charles E. Barnard.
Harewood U.S.A. General Hospital,
Hospital Number, 20,300.
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
Charles E. Barnard, Hospital Number 20, 300
Harewood General Hospital
Reed B. (Brockway) Bontecou 1824-1907
Subject (Topic): Medical photography—patients
Medical photography—United States—19th century
Neck—Wounds and injuries
United States—History—Civil War, 1861-1865—Medical and sanitary affairs

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