"I never knew I was hit… Suddenly I was conscious of dampness along the lower part of my high-top boots and pulling it out I was surprised to see it dripping with blood… I lifted it carefully over my horse’s neck and slid to the ground… the knee had been smashed, probably by a piece of shell, and that the leg had been broken above and also below the knee…”
                                                                                                                   Maj. Gen. Daniel E. Sickles