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"Predominance of wounds on the Right Side of the Body.
... the operations of skirmishers, who deliver their fire usually from the right hand side of the trees that shelter them; in consequence of this, the right hand, arm, and shoulder, and the right thigh, knee, and leg, receive many more wounds than the left.*" ~ Dr. Edmund Andrews, Surgeon, 1st Illinois Light Artillery
https://publicdomainreview.org/collections/reed-bontecous-portraits-of-wounded-soldiers-1865/
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@huskerblitz brought Dr. Andrews' statement to my attention in another thread. It was something I had never thought about. Even though Dr. Andrews makes his claim in relation to battles in the western theater, it looks like the same held true elsewhere - at least for the example below. Of these 64 soldiers wounded in the arm, 35 were wounded in the right arm and 29 in the left arm.
https://books.google.com/books?id=e...iYKHbQ1A0MQ6AEIHDAB#v=onepage&q=right&f=false
* page 38 - https://archive.org/stream/2164035R.nlm.nih.gov/2164035R#page/n0/mode/2up
... the operations of skirmishers, who deliver their fire usually from the right hand side of the trees that shelter them; in consequence of this, the right hand, arm, and shoulder, and the right thigh, knee, and leg, receive many more wounds than the left.*" ~ Dr. Edmund Andrews, Surgeon, 1st Illinois Light Artillery
https://publicdomainreview.org/collections/reed-bontecous-portraits-of-wounded-soldiers-1865/
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@huskerblitz brought Dr. Andrews' statement to my attention in another thread. It was something I had never thought about. Even though Dr. Andrews makes his claim in relation to battles in the western theater, it looks like the same held true elsewhere - at least for the example below. Of these 64 soldiers wounded in the arm, 35 were wounded in the right arm and 29 in the left arm.
https://books.google.com/books?id=e...iYKHbQ1A0MQ6AEIHDAB#v=onepage&q=right&f=false
* page 38 - https://archive.org/stream/2164035R.nlm.nih.gov/2164035R#page/n0/mode/2up