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| Keywords: Civil War facial wound.jpg Facial trauma from a Civil War woundAccompanying text reads Shell Wound of the face with great destruction of the soft parts Private Joseph Harvey Co C 149th New York Volunteers Wounded at Chancellorsville Virginia on May 3 1863 The text on the back of the photo reads Private Joseph Harvey C 149th New York was wounded at the battle of Chancellorsville May 3 1863 by a fragment of shell The right eye was destroyed the right superior maxilla was fractured a fragment was chipped off the lower jaw and the right cheek was frightfully lacerated The prisoner fell into the hands of the enemy and remained a prisoner eleven days In the middle of June 1863 he was admitted into Mansion House Hospital at Alexandria In August portions of exfoliated bone were removed A ferrotype representing the appearance of the wound at this date was forwarded to the Army Medical Museum On May 7 1865 Harvey was discharged from service on account of physical disability He was subsequently employed as a night-watchman at the Commissary Hospital in Alexandria The photograph was taken June 22 1865 The loss of substance in the cheek was still unrepaired and liquids and saliva escaped frrom it There was slight deafness and partial facial paralysis on the right side This soldier was pensioned and his death from cause not known was reported Decmber 9 1868 -- George A Otis this version downloaded from http //www flickr com/photos/22719239 N04/2342453933/ 1865-06-22 George A Otis pd-old Uploaded to Flickr com under a cc-by license but copyright has expired Wounded of the American Civil War Wounds War wounds Files from Otis Historical Archives Nat'l Museum of Health Medicine Flickr stream | ||||
