His desire for authenticity drew him to violence; he tore out of books, newspapers and magazine images of massacres, wounded bodies, severed and shattered limbs.
The activists' accounts could not be independently confirmed, but videos posted on YouTube and Facebook groups controlled by rebels showed charred bodies and shattered limbs, wrapped in red cloths and carpets.
Nevertheless, at McRae's order or not, Lilly had the wounded make their way — limping, panting, on shattered limbs or dragged into the woods — where he and his troops shot all of them through the back of the head.
Despite amputations, bandaged wounds, and shattered limbs, the reporter noted they were ready to try it again, insisting they would not quit fighting "till the last rebel be dead," or until "all our people get their freedom".
Other than broken tree limbs, shattered windows and power outages, little damage occurred.
Damage was mainly confined to broken tree limbs, shattered windows and power outages.
Orthopedic surgery Orthopedic surgeons are the carpenters of medicine, called in to repair limbs shattered by bullets or snapped in car wrecks.
Strong winds that accompanied Cindy snapped tree limbs, shattered a few windows, damaged roofs, and knocked power out in Charleston, but little other damage was wrought.
The details captured in 1/2 Revolution are ominous: activists repeatedly declare their willingness to die and become martyrs, the camera dwells on shattered heads and limbs, bodies on stretchers being rushed away, a man lifting up his shirt to show a bullet wound in his back, a pool of blood on the pavement with the word "Egypt" traced in Arabic.
On April 6, 1862, at the Battle of Shiloh in western Tennessee, Powell was struck in the right forearm by a minié ball a lead bullet with a conical head and field surgeons amputated the shattered part of the limb two days later.
