Nature is kinder than that.

With such an injury the poor fellow's limb would be numbed by the terrible shock, and possibly he felt but little pain.

I knew an officer whose foot was taken off in a battle in India.

A cannon-ball struck him just above the ankle, and he felt a terrible blow, but it did not hurt him afterwards for the time; and all he thought of was that his horse was killed, till he began to struggle away from the fallen beast, when he found that his own leg was gone." "How horrible!" I said.
"All war is horrible, my boy," he said gravely.

"Well, to go on with my story.