| Source: The Medical and Surgical History of the
Civil War, Volume VIII Case-- Sergeant
Robert Beck, Co. G.
27th Iowa, aged 25 years, received, at the battle of
Pleasant Hill, Louisiana, April 9th, 1864, a gunshot wound;
the missile entered the left temple on a level, and one inch
posterior to outer eminence of the left eye, and passed out
one-half inch below the right eye, destroying in its course
the left eye, the lachrymal sac, duct of the right eye, and
the bones, and produced-ectropion of the right eye. He
was admitted to the Marine Hospital, St. Louis, on April
7th, 1865. On April 27th, Surgeon J. H. Grove, U. S.
V., performed a plastic operation for deformity of right
eye. Simple dressings were applied. The result
was perfect. He was discharged on May 13, 1865.
The case is reported by the operator. In March, 1871,
Pension Examiner J. W. Smith reports that necrosed bone has
been discharged, during the past year, from wound of exit;
the left nostril is closed except by forced inspiration.
He rates his disability as total and permanent. |