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Who cares that a million citizens are slaughtered, or maimed, unnecessarily.
Certainly not the cheerleaders at The New York Times.
War has always boosted sales.
There is a monument of General Sedgwick at West Point. Academy legend has it that a cadet who spins the rowels of the spurs on the boots of the statue at midnight while wearing full parade dress gray over white uniform under arms will have good luck on his or her final exam.
The following were named in his honor:
Sedgwick, Colorado
Sedgwick County, Colorado
Sedgwick, Kansas
Sedgwick County, Kansas
Fort Sedgwick was one of the forts of the Union siege line in the Siege of Petersburg 1864–65.
Camp Rankin was renamed Fort Sedgwick in 1865, near Julesburg, Colorado.
Sedgwick Avenue, a major street in the Bronx, New York City, is named after him.
An east–west street in Washington, D.C., near American University, is also named in his honor, as is another on Chicago's near north side, with a CTA station named after the street.
Grand Army of the Republic Post #4 in Keene, New Hampshire; Post #12 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Post #17 in Santa Ana, California; and Post #37 in York, Pennsylvania, are all named after him.
A junior high school, John Sedgwick Middle School "Home of the Generals", in Port Orchard, Washington, was named after him.
Sedgwick’s last words were “A sniper couldn’t hit an elephant at that distance.” - just seconds before he was killed by a sniper round.
Tommorrow will see the worst Battle ever fought on US soil.
Was there a Spott who started Spotsylvania? It lost a t along the way?