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  John Sedgwick   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Affectionately known as "Uncle John" to his troops, Union Gen. John Sedgwick was one of the Army of the Potomac's best-loved corps commanders and was known to be a solid and dependable leader.
At the outbreak of the Civil War, Sedgwick was a major with 24 years of experience, a veteran of the Seminole and Mexican Wars and of six years of fighting Indians in the West.
Sedgwick took no part in the fighting at Gettysburg but scored the only major Union success in the Bristoe campaign when he captured most of a Confederate division with its guns at Rappahannock Station.
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 John Sedgwick - LoveToKnow 1911   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
JOHN SEDGWICK (1813-1864), American general, was born at Cornwall, Connecticut, on the 13th of September 1813, and graduated at West Point in 1837.
Sedgwick had been offered the chief command of the army upon Hooker's resignation; but he declined, and retained his command of the VI.
At the opening of the battle of Spottsylvania Court House, Sedgwick was killed (9th of May 1864) by a shot from a Confederate skirmisher.
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 SEDGWICK.ORG - Major General John Sedgwick (1813-1864)
Sedgwick was an 1837 USMA graduate who fought in many of the major battles of the Mexican War.
Sedgwick was later killed at the Battle of Spottsylvania in 1864.
John Sedgwick, commander of the Sixth Corps, was one of the most popular senior officers in the Army of the Potomac.
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 John Sedgwick Biography Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Affectionately called "Uncle John" Sedgwick by his troops, he became the third and final corps commander in the Army of the Potomac to be killed in action.
Sedgwick himself suffered three wounds and was out of action until after Fredericksburg when he returned to lead first the 2nd Corps, then the 9th, and finally the 6th.
Sedgwick was buried where he was born, in Cornwall Hollow, Connecticut.
www.civilwarhome.com /sedgwickbio.htm   (421 words)

  
 John Sedgwick   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
John Sedgwick, President of the Canadian Marquetry Society, presents some examples of his work.
John's work pleased the collector, who owns, buys, and sells music boxes, and as a result, he has had an endless supply to work on ever since.
One of John's recent projects was a scale grand piano which was completed over a period of three years.
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 identity theory | the narrative thread - john sedgwick
John Sedgwick has written three works of non-fiction: Night Visions: Confessions of Gil Lewis, Private Eye; Rich Kids: Young Heirs and Heiresses: How They Love and Hate Their Money; and The Peaceable Kingdom: A Year In The Life Of America’s Oldest Zoo.
Sedgwick, who is himself the member of a distinguished Massachusetts family, brings his familiarity with upper-crust society to bear on setting the scenes and depicting class issues in this wide-ranging novel.
I was interested in the study that showed that St John’s Wort, theoretically the salvation of the alternative medicine crowd, as far as depression went, was completely ineffective and that placebos worked best, and anti- depressants coming in second.
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 John Sedgwick - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Confederate sharpshooters were about 1,000 yards away and their shots caused members of his staff and artillerymen to duck for cover.
He was the highest ranking Union casualty (the most senior by date of rank of all major generals killed) of the Civil War.
Local legend has it that a Cadet who spins the spurs of the statue at midnight while wearing full dress uniform will have good luck on his or her exams.
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 The Death Of General John Sedgwick
After nightfall General Sedgwick rode back into an open field near General Warren's headquarters and, with his staff, lay down on the grass and slept until daylight.
After this brigade, by Sedgwick's direction, had been withdrawn through a little opening to the left of the pieces of artillery, the general, who had watched the operation, resumed his seat on the hard-tack box and commenced talking about members of his staff in very complimentary terms.
He was an inveterate tease, and I at once suspected that he had some joke on the staff which he was leading up to.
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 MAJOR-GENERAL SEDGWICK   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
109 - "General John Sedgewick (son of General John Sedgewick I, who fought with distinction in the War of the Revolution) was one of the top commanders of the Union Army during the Civil War and according to many of his admirers should have been named Commander-in-Chief.
A graduate of West Point, a veteran of Indian Wars in the West and campaigns in Mexico, General Sedgewick performed heroic services at Bull Run, Antietam, and Gettysburg, but his troops, unfortunately, took extremely heavy losses.
At Spottsylvania, where he was boldly exposing himself to snipers while directing the artillery fire, reassuring the men that confederate sharpshooters could not hit an elephant at that distance, he was shot dead on the spot."
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 John Sedgwick : QuicklyFind Info
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These were among General John Sedgwick's final words.
He was serving as a Union commander in the U.S. Civil War, and was hit by sniper fire a few minutes after saying them, at the battle of Spotsylvania, on May 9, 1864.
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 John Sedgwick from HarperCollins Publishers
John Sedgwick is the author of the novels The Dark House and The Education of Mrs.
John Sedgwick's widely praised novels introduced readers to the rarified...
An elderly woman curled up on a bed in a...
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 SEDGWICK.ORG - Major General John Sedgwick, U.S. Volunteers, 1813-1864   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
SEDGWICK.ORG - Major General John Sedgwick, U.S. Volunteers, 1813-1864
The Library - Books sections at Sedgwick.org use framesets to navigate the books.
If several people do, I will try to make a non-frames version,
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