The Daily Dispatch: September 23, 1862., [Electronic resource]

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A heart dislocated on the battle-field.

Dr. North, the resident Surgeon of the New England Relief Room., New York, states that James Baker, of the 1st Massachusetts regiment, who was in the seven days battle, was knocked down by the horses attached to an artillery piece, the wheels passing over his body, the weight pressing principally on the left side. He was taken up in a state of insensibility and carried to a hospital, where it was found that his heart had been dislocated, the apex occupying the same position on the right that it should have had on the left. Up to a few days previous to his admission to the New England Rooms he had frequent attacks of bleeding at the lungs. He remained there a short time under treatment, and has since been sent home, with a prospect of partial recovery, at least. He may survive many years. It is an instance in which a broken heart has nearly been hauled by surgical skill.