| Unidentified photographer Joseph B. Kendall [Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion (1870-1888)] n.d. Photograph, mounted 22 x 17 cm (image) 31 x 26 cm (mount) NIH: U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) Order No.: B030337 LL/66081 Picture caption: Photograph 187. Successful excision of a portion of the shaft of the right femur for gunshot fracture. In the assault upon the heights of Fredericksburg by General Sedgewick's command, May 3, 1863, Sergeant Joseph E. Kendall, Co. K, 5th Wisconsin Volunteers, was struck by a musket ball, which split upon the shaft of the right femur ...
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