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To: w1n1

They couldn’t hit an elephant at that dist...

-General John Sedgwick’s final words at the battle of Spottsylvania.


2 posted on 12/19/2017 6:07:38 AM PST by rdl6989
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Sedegewick should have known more caution given his life of military experience

West Point grad

Veteran of many conflicts

Sedgwick was a good Yankee btw

The radicals who were safely in D.C. rather than out fighting my ancestors in the field loathed him

So he must have been top notch


7 posted on 12/19/2017 6:33:15 AM PST by wardaddy (As a southerner I've never trusted the Grand Old Party.....any questions?)
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