His urine and excretions passed out through the wounds for several weeks and several pieces of bone came away.

The two openings eventually healed, but for twenty-two months he passed pieces of bone by the natural channels.
Eve records the case of a private in the Fifth Tennessee Cavalry who was shot in the right gluteal region, the bullet penetrating the bladder and making its exit through the pubis.

He rode 30 miles, during which the urine passed through the wound.

Urine was afterward voided through the left pubic opening, and spicules of bone were discharged for two years afterward; ultimate recovery ensued.
Barkesdale relates the history of the case of a Confederate soldier who was shot at Fredericksburg in the median line of the body, 1 1/2 inches above the symphysis, the wound of exit being in the median line at the back, 1/2 inch lower down.

Urine escaped from both wounds and through the urethra.