[MIchaelTArchangel]

Of the several hundred thousand wounded men treated in Union hospitals over the course of the war, surgeons noted only 922 bayonet wounds!

While this statement is true, it ignores a rather important fact about bayonet wounds. A soldier who has received such a wound generally dies on the battlefield. What has always been rare about bayonet wounds is the victim living long enough to be seen by a doctor in a field hospital.

You might ask yourself these question: Since bayonet wounds are so infrequent, who bother to issue bayonets to soldiers? Wouldn't it be more effective to give soldiers more bullets?

[Conservomax]

I've heard a saying: Bayonets are good for everything except fighting.