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The Daily Dispatch: August 1, 1864., [Electronic resource], Remarkable Gunshot wound. (search)
Remarkable Gunshot wound. --We noticed about three weeks since the fact that a tooth which had become embedded in the tongue of Mr. James A. Gentry, a young man from this city, by the force of a ball that struck him in his mouth at the battle of the Wilderness, had been extracted, and at the time regarded it as a most remarka accordingly, on Friday last, he called upon Dr. Baylor, of Chimborazo, to perform the job. The doctor at first doubted that there could be anything else in young Gentry's tongue, but believed the inflammation and swelling of that member was caused from the incision which had been made when the tooth was taken out. He, however, inr the roots of his tongue felt some hard substance, which, upon being cut out, proved to be a Minnie bail. The leaden Missile was much battered from contact with Gentry's teeth (three of which were knocked out by its force) at the time it struck him, about three months since. He describes the operation as a very painful one, and