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early life
Sledge was born on November 4, 1923, in Mobile, Alabama, into an upper-middle-class family. His father was a physician, and his mother was the daughter of a college dean. He grew up at Georgia Cottage and had a passion for Southern history, even collecting Civil War artifacts and participating in reenactments.
heath
He was a frail child and had to repeat two years of school because of rheumatic fever which left him with a heart murmur in which his father brother plus his childhood best friend Sidney Phillips also wrote to Sledge from Guadalcanal, and urged him not to enlist