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Corporal G. W. Stepps, Co. C. 20th North Carolina, aged 20 years, was wounded at Spottsylvania, May 12, 1864, and entered Lincoln Hospital, Washington, on May 22d. Assistant Surgeon J. C. McKee, U. S. A., reported: Gunshot wound of right groin, a "ball entering half an inch below and exterior to the middle of Poupart's ligament, fracturing the head of the femur and the acetabulum, and escaping at the middle of the right nates. Death occurred on June 10, 1864." A portion of the os innominatum, represented in the wood-cut (FiG. 32)[Not included], was contributed by Acting Assistant Surgeon H. M. Dean.
SOURCE: Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion. Volume 2, Part 3.
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