Seeing a person get hit by a cannon ball is.....interesting, in fact it relly depends on where you are hit and what gun is shooting it. If you where hit in your head for instance, terminal balistic whould state that the persons body would not have a temporary cavity (as seen with a regular bullet) but in fact would just act as if the person was hit by an axe on the lower edge of where the cannon ball hits, this could cause the persons head to littarly rip of thier body, somtimes taking thier spine with it, depending on the range and mass of the ball. You could also be hit in the chest, and if you where you would probobly be torn in half if it was a 6 pounder, 12 pounder would probobly not leave much of your chest left( most of it would go with the cannon ball) and you would have a head, two arms and legs strewn about in about a 20 meter radius(be at the mind you are geting hit with a cannon ball not a shotgun or somthing like that). If you where hit in the legs or arms, depending on the force of the ball, the mass, range and a few other variable, you are most likly to lose that arm or have it severly crushed/broken and luanched some amount of distance(if hit in the leg) or thrown unto the floor. If you where hit with a morter round (i.e. the solid one) expect your remains to be pulvirized into the ground. in fact they may have to dig some of your body out. If it is explosive i don't think anything will be left. Howitzers will get a mixed effect of both, if the round hit you first before hitting the ground then expect the same deal as what happens when a solid morter round hits you only a bit less into the ground and more of at an angle, if you get hit after it bouces for a bit expect a cannon balls effect but dowgraded. The reason for this is the angle at which most of these guns are fired, flat trojectory tends to luanch you a lot further then one coming at a 45 degree or one, even less soat one coming at a 85 degree angle.
my two cents
