Charles Last

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Title: Charles Last
Creator: Harewood General Hospital
Photographer unidentified
Contributor: Bontecou, Reed Brockway, 1824-1907
Charles Last
Harewood General Hospital
Reed B. (Brockway) Bontecou 1824-1907
Published / Created: 1865
Publication Place: Washington, D.C.
Description: Charles Last, bugler, 25th Ill., aged 35, admitted to Harewood U.S.A. Gen'l Hospital, from Hampton Hospital, Sept. 13, 1865, convalescent from gunshot fracture of right thigh, upper third, ball entering from outerside. Wounded by guard at Washington, D.C.—conical ball—at short range June 7, 1865. On admission to this hospital, the fractured part was united and patient able to be about on crutches. Constitutional state of patient, at time of injury, good; treatment, splint and counter extension; result, favorably. The patient is doing very well, and in a fair way of having a good limb.
CHARLES LAST.
Gunshot fracture of thigh.
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 Last
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

Access: Public
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