Transfixed by a ramrod

Here’s the result of an unusual projectile wound.

Irish-born Private William Ford, Co. K, 8th Ohio Infantry was wounded in the assault on the Sunken Road/Bloody Lane at Antietam on 17 September 1862 “by a ramrod which transfixed the right thigh in the upper third.”

There’s much more about him on his AotW page.

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His photo above was taken 27 March 1871 at what’s now the National Museum of Health and Medicine, Washington, DC. It’s online in the Otis Historical Archives, NMHM.