Changes

[[File:Picketts-Charge,-Battle-of-Gettysburg-in-1863-278439-large.jpg|thumbnail|300px|Prominently featured in this painting of Pickett's Charge is Gen. Armistead reaching for the gun with his hat high on his sword.]]

By all accounts, Armistead’s wound was not thought to be mortal. He was treated at a Union field hospital by Dr. Daniel Brinton. The doctor believed that although amputation was probable, Armistead had a very good chance of survival as "no arteries had been severed."<ref>Priest, 162.</ref> When Armistead was treated at the XI Corps hospital, Dr. Henry Hendrick reported that, “‘He had lost quite a deal of blood, but the wounds were not necessarily fatal. He never rallied, however, and died a little past noon on the Fourth of July’”<ref>Frey, 151.</ref>We are now presented with two men and two wounds. One was expected to live while the other was told he would die. Some science is needed to understand the surprising turn of events.

== Science ==