[tet68]

The heavy soft lead ( .68 Cal. that's 7/8ths of an inch)Minie balls would shatter limbs, the only remedy was amputation. I remember reading of surgeries
where amputated limbs would be tossed out a window into a heap.

[Joe 6-pack]

Indeed...that little Pennsylvania town became a meat grinder for three days. What is now the college administrative building had been at the time the library and dormitory. During the battle it had ben used as a field hospital alternately by both sides. I had a work-study job in the current library’s special collections room, and the college still had in it’s possession a number of books with blood stains.

[tet68]

Ooops , not quite 3/4”. Sorry.
still the soft lead held together and turned into the size of a quarter. The Anti-war protesters of today, would have been shocked by real war.