GDG- Arty Anti-personnel Effectiveness

[Bob Huddleston]

In addition it misses those hit by cannon balls who never made it to the
hospital 

Take care,

Bob

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From: gettysburg-bounces at arthes.com [mailto:gettysburg-bounces at arthes.com]
On Behalf Of Richard M Kadas
Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 11:16 AM
To: GDG
Subject: Re: GDG- Arty Anti-personnel Effectiveness

Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:


I wanted to thank everyone who participated in this thread. Their comments
increased my knowledge of the topic. Yesterday, I gained access to a copy of
. Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion (1861-65) which
should shed some light  on the arty casualty issue. At least I'll be able to
find out if there are some gems of wisdom hiding in the casualty stats.
Nevertheless, the stats can't change the reality that only living casualties
admitted to hospital were classified by wound type. They'll also miss the
ones caused by arty submunitions which look similar enough to minie ball
wounds to be mistaken for them.
  Dick
  ballccj at infionline.net wrote:
  Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:


J. G. Benton's A Course of Instruction in Ordnance & Gunnery is available on
the web. It provides much information relating to questions raised in this
thread. If nothing else, it is an excellent point of departure for any
inquiry having to do with Civil War ordnance.

Concerning casualty causative agents, the generally accepted proportion for
the Civil War is 90% small arms and 10% artillery. Practically the same
proportion was observed for the German armies in the Franco-Prussian War
(1870-71); in the French army, artillery fire caused 25% of the casualties,
and this is the largest percent attributable to artillery between 1860 and
1914. In the Russo-Japanese War (1904-05), artillery caused 15% of all
casualties.

There is rather a large medico-military literature on this subject.

Curt Johnson


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