Found another man who was shot through the head and survived.
Lieut. James Marshall Hair (23 Oct 1839 - 18 Jan 1911) enlisted 18 Sept 1861 at Fort Johnson, Cole's Island, SC as a 21 year old Private into Capt. W. H. Duncan's company, 1st South Carolina (Hagood's) Infantry which became company G, later E, of the 1st SC.
At the Battle of the Wilderness, May 6, 1864, Hair received a gunshot wound to the head which passed from his right temple and exited his left cheek. He was admitted to CSA General Hospital, Charlottesville, VA June 8, 1864 and was transferred to Augusta GA June 9, 1864. He was retired to the Invalid Corps on January 3, 1865.
In Feb. 1867, James M. Hair married Harriet Sarah Matthews. Between 1870-1885, the couple had seven children - three boys and four girls. He died in 1911 at the age of 71 and was buried at Williston Cemetery, Barnwell County, SC.
Describing Lt. Hair's wounding at the Wilderness, the regimental historian, Sgt. Frank M. Mixson wrote:
Lieut. Hair, being on my right, turned his head to the left to talk to me. We were all lying flat on our bellies. As he turned to speak to me a minnie ball hit him in the right temple, passing directly through his face and head, coming out in the left cheek. His head fell flat to the ground. I put my hand under his head, holding it up. The blood gushed from his temple, his eyes, his nose, his mouth. I held him thus until the blood in a manner stopped, then taking his handkerchief I wiped his eyes and asked him if he could get back. He thought he could and, on standing up, a minnie ball cut his tobacco pouch from his coat. However, he started back, and after running perhaps a hundred yards, I saw him almost turn a somersault. I thought he was a "goner," but he is yet alive, living at Williston, and making a good, upright, intelligent citizen.
[Source: Mixson, Frank M., Reminiscences of a Private, The State Company, Columbia, SC., 1910. pp 69-70.]