Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - An haifi Eugene Bondurant Sledge a ranar 4 ga Nuwamba, 1923, a Mobile, Alabama, ga Edward Simmons Sledge, likita, da Mary Frank "Sturdivant" Sledge, shugaban ɗaliban mata a Kwalejin Huntingdon. Ya sauke karatu daga makarantar sakandaren Murphy a Mobile a cikin bazara na 1942. An haifi babban ɗan'uwansa, Edward Simmons Sledge II, a ranar 10 ga Satumba, 1920, kuma ya shiga cikin Sojojin Amurka. Ya ci gaba da yin aiki a filin wasan kwaikwayo na Yammacin Turai
, ya bar rundunar soji tare da mukamin Manjo kuma ya mutu a ranar 23 ga Satumba, 1985. Eugene yaro ne mara lafiya kuma ya rasa shekaru biyu na makaranta saboda zazzabin rheumatic kuma wannan yanayin ya bar shi da bugun zuciya. Duk da haka da zarar yanayin ya ragu, iyalinsa sun karfafa shi ya shiga kwaleji maimakon shiga soja. Abokinsa na ƙuruciya Sidney Phillips ya rubuta wa Sledge daga Guadalcanal kuma ya roƙe shi kada ya shiga wani abu.