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.
New Estimate Raises Civil War Death Toll. A lithograph of the Battle of Gettysburg. For 110 years, the numbers stood as gospel: 618,222 men died in the , 360,222 from the North and 258,000 from the South â by far the greatest toll of any war in American history. But new research shows that the numbers were far too low.