"Soldier's Joy," about being wounded in the Civil War. That was a dreadful war; the first war with accurate rifles in the hands of most soldiers, the first war with repeaters, automatic weapons, indirect fire with spotters and the last war with largely medieval medical techniques (although with the first stirrings of modernity).
The only saving grace was that we learned about the folly of marching into massed rifle fire a half-century before the Europeans did. They could have saved hundreds of thousands of lives if they had learned the lessons from what to them was some colonial war of no note.
(H/T to the Alternate Brain)
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