To: Joe 6-pack
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.
18 posted on
04/02/2009 3:53:33 PM PDT by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: tet68
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.
19 posted on
04/02/2009 3:56:30 PM PDT by
Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
To: 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.
20 posted on
04/02/2009 3:57:54 PM PDT by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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