Description: Bullet Caption: This Minié ball bullet wounded an unknown soldier. The bullet was extracted from a fractured, necrosed femur (femur with tissue death) by Assistant Surgeon Bennett Clements. This bullet is Spec 4411 in “Plate LXXVIII Distorted Bullets” in the “Medical and Surgical History of the War of Rebellion, Surgical Volume II, Part III,” page 710. This bullet is exhibited at the National Museum of Health and Medicine in Silver Spring, Maryland. [] (Disclosure: This image has been cropped to emphasize the subject.) (National Museum of Health and Medicine Photo b


Description: Bullet Caption: This Minié ball bullet wounded an unknown soldier. The bullet was extracted from a fractured, necrosed femur (femur with tissue death) by Assistant Surgeon Bennett Clements. This bullet is Spec 4411 in “Plate LXXVIII Distorted Bullets” in the “Medical and Surgical History of the War of Rebellion, Surgical Volume II, Part III,” page 710. This bullet is exhibited at the National Museum of Health and Medicine in Silver Spring, Maryland. [] (Disclosure: This image has been cropped to emphasize the subject.) (National Museum of Health and Medicine Photo by Ian Herbst)


Size: 2000px × 1977px
Photo credit: © Operation 2022 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: bullet, civil, medical, museum, nmhm, war