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Foxholes, on the ground, in tents, occupied houses. Wherever they could. But mostly foxholes.
In order to be less likely to be wounded by artillery and mortar fire, experienced soldiers "dig in" immediately when their unit stops moving for the day.
A "slit trench " for 2 soldiers takes about 30 minutes to dig, depending on how hard the ground is and how many rocks there are in it. It should be at least 5 feet deep, 3 feet wide, and 7 feet long, and be shaped like a letter L, with a 90 degree turn to shield the men from a grenade, if it lands in the trench. Over head cover is important, to protect against air burst shells, and it should be at least 2 feet thick, and cover at least half of the hole.
Sleeping in a farm house is a BAD idea, as the enemy has it registered on their artillery fire plan, and a couple of artillery rounds will kill everyone in the building in a few seconds. Same thing applies to any building in the fighting area. Much better to sleep outside, below ground level, safe from all threats but a direct hit by a shell.
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∙ 14y ago
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∙ 13y agoSoldiers don't normally sleep during a battle. This battle only lasted 1 day.
Actually the soldiers of both sides would have "slept on their arms", meaning they would remain in their current position and be ready for the next days fight. Since Lee's army did not retire from the battlefield until the evening of September 18, it would be correct to say the soldiers slept on the battlefield the night of the 17th if they were able to sleep.
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∙ 11y agoBoth armies set up camps and the men have bed rolls and if they are lucky a small tent they share with others. Men don't sleep while a battle goes on. The only way a man leaves a battle is dead or wounded.
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∙ 8y agoThey tried to sleep, but it was not easy.
On both sides, not every unit was involved in the fighting on each of the three days. Confederate troops who fought on the first day went back over the battleground searching for their wounded friends and relatives for much of that night. Union troops had been driven from their positions that day and could not do this, or they would have been out looking for their friends too. Combat was exhausting, and the stress was terrible, and the heat during the battle was severe, with temperatures into the nineties. So some fell into exhausted slumber.
Other Confederate troops fought on the second day, and spent that night looking over the battlefield for wounded friends. The same thing happened after the third day. The day after the battle was the 4th of July, and both armies remained in position but there was no fighting. That night the Confederate Army began to move back toward home.
There was little real rest from the time the Confederates left their camps in Virginia in early June until they were back in Virginia in mid July, having walked hundreds of miles on dusty dirt roads in summer heat and fought the huge battle. These were some tough guys, on both sides.
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∙ 15y agoMost of them had tents, but as the weather was hot, many probably slept outside.
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∙ 11y agoNo one sleeps during a battle. They fight or die.
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