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.
This battle which occurred from the July 1-3, 1863 in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania resulted in 51,000 casualties of which 28,000 were Confederate soldiers. The Union was considered the winner of the battle.