GDG- 2nd NH using "Poison and Explosive Bullets" at Gettysburg?

[James Cameron]

<< Jim,

The use of the .58 caliber Minie ball would violate all such conventions.  A
500-grain soft lead bullet, even traveling as slowly as it did, wreaked
havoc on human flesh and bone; not a nice round to run into, I'd guess.

Regards,

Jack Kelly  >>

True.  And as a more modern example, the use of buckshot in trench guns 
(i.e., shotguns) by the AEF during WW1 was protested by the Germans on the 
grounds that the unjacketed lead buckshot pellets were illegal.

Jim Cameron