The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, part II, volume II (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1877), p. 102 describes the case of a Private in Company E, 11th Mississippi Infantry. Only a partial name is given, John R. M----. According to the Soldiers and Sailors Database, this may be John R. Mims, or J. R. Mens (possibly a variant spelling for the same individual). This soldier was wounded on 1 July 1863 at Gettysburg. He was admitted to the general field hospital and on 21 July was sent to the hospital at Chester [Pennsylvania]; and on 14 January 1864 was removed to McClellan hospital, where Acting Assistant Surgeon W. L. Wells reported his case: wounded by a minie ball, which entered in the left iliac region, and passed out below the crest of the ilium after passing through the latter bone. The patient states that there were fecal discharges from the anterior wound for about two weeks after the reception of the injury, and at various intervals since, and that several pieces of bone had been removed from the posterior wound. On 13 February he was removed to West's Buildings in Baltimore, where he died on 12 March 1864. An autopsy was conducted [which is described in detail].