How often would a soldier get wounded?

Of the small number of soldiers who get wounded in combat, the overwhelming majority get wounded only once. A very small minority of them get wounded more than once. In the Vietnam War, 8,744,000 American servicepeople served (most of them not in combat roles). read more

To get addicted to morphine, you usually needed to be on it continously for days or weeks. It wasn't unheard of for soldiers to become addicted, but you had to become severely wounded enough to recieve morphine over an extended period but not so severely wounded that you died. read more

Being come into the city, I entered into a stable, thinking to lodge my own and my man’s horse, and found four dead soldiers, and three propped against the wall, their features all changed, and they neither saw, heard, nor spake, and their clothes were still smouldering where the gunpowder had burned them. read more