There are a few options for treatment of fractures of the hook of the hamate. Use of a cast to immobilize the broken bone can sometimes be effective, but the results are not reliable. Healing of the fracture may not occur, and patients are likely to need further treatment. Repair of the fracture is generally avoiding.
In early September 1861, less than five months after Fort Sumter, and little more than six weeks after the battle itself, the Confederate soldiers of the 8th Georgia Infantry erected the first Civil War battlefield monument, at the site of their victory at Manassas.
It is the tallest poured in place concrete obelisk in the world. The monument is to Jefferson Davis (1808-1889) the first and only president of the Confederacy. The Jefferson Davis Monument State Shrine became a part of the Kentucky State Park System on June 7, 1927. Ironically, fellow Kentuckian and Civil War president, Abraham Lincoln was born less than 100 miles away in Hodgenville.