Newborn babies sleep a lot. Expect your baby to be asleep for up to 18 hours out of every 24 in his first few weeks (ISIS 2013). But he wonât sleep for more than one hour to three hours at a time, day or night, as he will need frequent feeds (ISIS 2013, NSF nd). This means that you can expect some sleepless nights, especially at first.
Gettysburg Casualties (Battle Deaths at Gettysburg) Nearly one-third of the total forces engaged at Gettysburg became casualties. George Gordon Meadeâs Army of the Potomac lost 28 percent of the men involved; Robert E. Leeâs Army of Northern Virginia suffered over 37 percent. Of these casualties, 7,058 were fatalities (3,155 Union, 3,903 Confederate). Another 33,264 had been wounded (14,529 Union, 18,735 Confederate) and 10,790 were missing (5,365 Union, 5,425 Confederate). At field hospitals around Gettysburg, amputated limbs lay in heaps and were buried together.
Every opportunity at a halt during a march should be taken advantage of to cut grass, wheat, or oats and extraordinary care be taken of the horses upon which everything depends.. The total number of horses and mules killed in the Civil War mounts up to more than one million. In the beginning of the war, more horses were being killed than men. The number killed at the Battle of Gettysburg totaled around 1,500. The Union lost 881 horses and mules, and the Confederacy lost 619. It is the great misfortune of horses that they can be saddle-broken and tamed. If the horse was more like an ox, not suited for riding, the war would have been drastically different.