I was just reading an article in a Civil War magazine that I get about the Life of Gen Dan Sickles, a Union General. He had his leg blown off below the knee by a 12 lb cannonball at Gettysburg. As his men were carrying him off the field, he calmly lit and smoked a "Cigar". Now that's one tough hombre!! They actually have a picture of his smashed leg bone and the cannonball that hit it. It's in a Civil War Museum somewhere.