The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, part II, volume II (Washington: Government Printing Office), p. 105 lists the case of Private R. [Richard R.?] Sauls of Company E, 51st Georgia Regiment, wounded at Gettysburg on July 3 [2?] 1863 by a minie ball. "He was admitted to the Seminary Hospital on the same day and on August 7 was transferred to Camp Letterman ... patient had readily emaciated, and died from exhaustion on August 27. An autopsy was made on the same day, and showed that the missile, entering the left lumbar region in a line between the anterior superious spinous process of the ilium and the twelfth rib, penetrating the cavity of the abdomen, and passing transversely through the descending colon, had made its exit on the left side of the spinal column in close proximity to the third lumbar vertebra; the spleen was pierced by the ball in its passage, and a large abscess was found between the meso-colon and posterior wall of the abdomen, containing a half pint of pus." Sauls' case was reported by Assistant Surgeon S. B. Sturdevant of the 139th Pennsylvania Regiment.