By midnight on Thursday, four days after the battle, Dr. Stipp had made full inventory: 254 wounded, most with extremity wounds from slow-moving musket balls that had entered their bodies but not exited. A few of the balls had managed to break bones: the right elbow joint of one man, the right shoulder of another, the femurs of perhaps half a dozen poor souls who had suffered torturous rides in two-wheeled jitneys that pounded into every rut and pothole in the ruined roads, two with missing jawbones, one with a broken hip, one whose feet had been crushed by a runaway wagon, and a dozen flesh
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