Specimen 5
Ribs. Portions of 11th and 12th ribs showing fractures and adjacent callus (FIG. 1).
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A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown
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A march in the ranks hard-prest, and the road unknown,
A route through a heavy wood with muffled steps in the darkness,
Our army fil’d with loss severe, and the sullen remnant retreating,
Till after midnight glimmer upon us in the woods, and halt by the dim-lighted building,
The Wound-Dresser
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Reconciliation
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Word over all, beautiful as the sky,
Beautiful that war and all its deeds of carnage must in time be utterly lost,
That the hands of the sisters Death and Night incessantly softly wash again, and ever again, this soil’d world;
For my enemy is dead, a man divine as myself is dead,
I look where he lies white-faced and still in the coffin—I draw near,
Specimen 7
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Femur. Fracture of the upper third of the shaft with poor apposition, united by irregular callus (FIG. 1).
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Specimen 12
Femur. Tubular sequestrum from amputated stump.
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Fracture of ankle occurred under unknown circumstances at Cold Harbour on June 3, 1864. An amputation took place March 19, 1865, and the patient was discharged August 15.
The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion
Specimen 2
Tibia/Fibula. The tibia consists almost entirely of a sequestrum surrounded by a thick involuculum. The origin of several sinuses (FIG. 1) are evident on the surface. The fibula is united to the tibial involucrum and to the os calcaneous below by dense callus (FIG. 2).
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Specimen 6
Skull. A slightly depressed fracture is evident adjacent to the fontanelle, associated with a small defect and a fracture line (FIG. 1) that runs anteriorly on the surface of the frontal bone.
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Dirge for Two Veterans
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The last sunbeam
Lightly falls from the finish’d Sabbath,
On the pavement here, and there beyond it is looking,
Down a new-made double grave.
Lo, the moon ascending,
Up from the east the silvery round moon,
Beautiful over the house-tops, ghastly, phantom moon,
Immense and silent moon.
I see a sad procession,
William Hammond
William Hammond was born in Maryland in 1828 and received a degree in Medicine from the University of the City of New York in 1848. After a brief stint in the Army, he joined the University of Maryland as Professor of Anatomy and Physiology.