![]() ![]() Wounds from Small Arms FireĪccording to statistics in the multivolume Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, published by the U.S. They also had a psychological impact on both the victim and those witnessing his distress. The injuries caused by these weapons ranged from minor to serious, disabling, or fatal. Each presented its own unique threat to a serviceman's body, though the degree of their lethality and the damage they could inflict varied due to a host of factors. ![]() Soldiers faced wounds or death from three distinct classes of weapons: small arms (pistols, shotguns, rifles, muskets, and carbines), artillery, and edged weapons (swords, sabers, and bayonets). The threat of injury in some sort of military action was an almost daily reality for most troops. As a result, munitions retained their maximum ability to deliver horrific damage to the human body. Because of the relatively limited range of the weapons used and the inability to accurately observe enemy formations from any great distance, most fighting was done within a few hundred yards of the opposition. Civil War combat was up close and personal. ![]()
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