Unidentified photographer
n.d.
Joseph B. Kendall
[Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion (1870-1888)]

Photograph, mounted
22 x 17 cm (image) 31 x 26 cm (mount)
 
NIH: U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM)
Order No.: B030337
 
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 …
 
LL/66081