![]() When he later took the blanket roll apart, he found 32 more bullets in his blankets, and his clothes were shot to pieces. He had piled his blanket roll around his head, and on bullet went through six plies of blanket and rubber blanket, and he felt the impact on his skull, but it did not penetrate all the way through the blanket. While laying on the field, he was hit again in the wrist, but it was not serious. He was then hit in the right arm close to the shoulder while preparing to ram a cartridge home. William McCarter, 116th Pennyslyvania, records in his memoirs that he was hit at Fredericksburg several times once in the left shoulder by a spent ball, and also in the left ankle. times that by 100, i heard 130, but for argument sake lets use the smaller number. ![]() 530 gr bullets you can make approx 13 per lb of lead as i recall. It took roughly 100 pounds of lead to take a man down. The average union 10 round paper bundle of ctgs =13.5 oz the ctg box full weighed 5 pounds. He claimed about 150 pounds of lead and 300 pounds of iron for every man killed. Kinda put a crimp in the Confederates making every round count. he claimed over 72 million rounds of small arms ammo issued from the Richmond Arsenal alone. According to Broun it took 200 pounds of lead and iron to wound a man.
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