. Officers of the army and navy (regular) who served in the Civil War . , 1892. At the close of the war Dr. Norris was brevettedlieutenant-colonel for faithful and meritorious servicesduring the war, and colonel for meritorious servicesand diligent discharge of duties during the war. Hewas promoted lieutenant-colonel December 14, 1882, andcolonel, November 14, 1S88. During his long period of service Dr. Norris per-formed numerous difficult surgical operations. At FortClark, Texas, in 1854, he amputated the thigh of Pri-vate Kinney, for accidental gun-shot wound through knee-joint; in 1855 ampu
. Officers of the army and navy (regular) who served in the Civil War . , 1892. At the close of the war Dr. Norris was brevettedlieutenant-colonel for faithful and meritorious servicesduring the war, and colonel for meritorious servicesand diligent discharge of duties during the war. Hewas promoted lieutenant-colonel December 14, 1882, andcolonel, November 14, 1S88. During his long period of service Dr. Norris per-formed numerous difficult surgical operations. At FortClark, Texas, in 1854, he amputated the thigh of Pri-vate Kinney, for accidental gun-shot wound through knee-joint; in 1855 amputated arm of Corporal Ives for gun-shot wound through elbow-joint, received in attack ofIndians on paymasters escort at crossing of Devils River;in 1856 ligated brachial artery of Lieutenant Crosby, U. Riflemen, for cure of aneurism from arrow-wound received fighting Indians at Lake Trinidad ; in1859, at a time °f great excitement, was despatched fromCamp Floyd to Salt Lake City to attend Sergeant Pike,Tenth U. S. Infantry, who, when in uniform and present. in obedience to summons of U. S. Court, was waylaid atnoon in the public street, shot and mortally wounded bySpencer, in front of the public hotel. He was post sur-geon at Albuquerque, New Mexico, in the summer of1861 during the prevalence of small-pox ; in Washington,in May, 1863, amputated thigh of Lieutenant Kirby forgun-shot fracture of the femur by two bullets from spheri-cal case-shot at Chancellorsville ; in 1864 amputated thighof General John C. Robinson for gun-shot wound ofknee-joint from rifle-ball received in battle in the Wil-derness; in Washington, amputated leg of LieutenantSmedburg, for disease of bone after primary amputationfor gun-shot wound of foot from shell explosion, battlein the Wilderness. In Washington, he attended Hon. William H. Seward,Secretary of State, for double fracture of the inferiormaxillary bone caused by a fall from his carriage, April4, 1865, and for wounds inflicted by Payne
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