There was a ragged wound in the anterior wall 1/2 inch in diameter.

The wound of exit was 5/8 inch in diameter.
After traversing the heart the ball had penetrated the diaphragm, wounded the omentum in several places, and become lodged under the skin posteriorly between the 9th and 10th ribs.

Church adds that the "Index Catalogue of the Surgeon-General's Library" at Washington contains 22 cases of direct injury to the heart, all of which lived longer than his case: 17 lived over three days; eight lived over ten days; two lived over twenty-five days; one died on the fifty-fifth day, and there were three well-authenticated recoveries.

Purple tabulates a list of 42 cases of heart-injury which survived from thirty minutes to seventy days.
Fourteen instances of gunshot wounds of the heart have been collected from U.S.Army reports, in all of which death followed very promptly, except in one instance in which the patient survived fifty hours.

In another case the patient lived twenty-six hours after reception of the injury, the conical pistol-ball passing through the anterior margin of the right lobe of the lung into the pericardium, through the right auricle, and again entered the right pleural cavity, passing through the posterior margin of the lower lobe of the right lung; at the autopsy it was found in the right pleural cavity.