The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, part II, volume II (Washington Printing Office, 1877), p. 99 describes the case of Private James T. Dowdy of Company G, 28th Virginia Infantry, wounded on 3 July 1863 at Gettysburg: ... age 23 years, wounded July 3 by conoidal musket ball, which entered an inch and a quarter below the umbilicus and a quarter inch to the left of the median line ... patient sent by rail to Aquia Creek and thence by transport on the steamer Mary Washington to Georgetown. Dowdy was wounded six different times during the war, twice seriously, in various parts of his body.