Lieutenant William G. Tracy was severely wounded at the Battle
Lieutenant William G. Tracy was severely wounded at the Battle Lieutenant William G. Tracy was severely wounded at the Battle of Chancellorsville 160 years ago on May 2, 1863 and transported to a US Army field hospital. He received surgical care three days later. A photograph and detailed record of Captain Tracy's treatment and recovery was collected by the Army Medical Museum during the Civil War and is preserved today by our friends at the National Museum of Health and Medicine. “Captain W.G. Tracy, Aid-de-Camp of General Slocum, aged twenty, was wounded in the right arm at the battle of Chancellorsville, Virginia, May 2, 1863..... Read story The injury was caused by a musket ball, which passed through, postero-anteriorly, above the elbow-joint, producing two complete fractures through the articulation and shattering the bone above the joint. The nerves escaped being injured. On May 5th Surgeon H.E. Goodman, 28th Pennsylvania, assisted by Surgeon R.W. Pease, 10...