Litchfield enquirer., 1864-05-19
Maj.-Gen. John Sedgwick.

The telegraph bore to us the brief announce snsss last week, just as we were going to press thas Maj. Gen. John Sedgwick was killed on Monday, while ereconneitering the ground which his corps were to occupy on the succeeding day. On Sunday last he was laid beneath the turf in the quiet valley he loved so we'll
 We shall not here attempt his eulogy. That is best pronounced by the profound grief which pervades the. Nation at the sense of his loss. There could hardly have been another General in our Armies whose untimely fall would be uaose widely and universally bswailed.
 Te ss ia his native county, to those especial ly.of his native town; who knew him best in hi private character as we'll as felt the highes pride in his military renown, his loss come. home with most crushing force. And it is here where his birthplace was, and where he sleep; his last sleep, that his memory will be deepest and longest enshrined in the hearts of grate full and loving community aad the very soil oI e Litchield County shall seem eyer sacred to un born millions hereafter, in that it contains Ais dust.
 Gen. John Sedgwick was born in Cornwall Hollow, Sept. 18th, 1913. He came of noble sa4 gallant stock, his grandfather from whom he was named, serving honoraby and success fully 6 Captain and Major in the armies of the Revolution. His father, Benjamin Sedgwick was one of the most honored and respected citizens of the town in which he lived, and where the General was born. At the age oI twenty he entered the Academy at West Point and was graduated in 1887 as Lieutenant o Artillery. He served for two years in the Florida War, and was on the Northern frontier during the Canadian rebellion. In l846 he went to Mexico, was breveted Captain for gal lantry at Contrsvas and Cherabusco and Majo, ss Chspulcepec. In lS4s he received his full commission as Captain, and in 1855 was made Major in the lst Cavalry. In 1861 he was made Colonel of the 4th Cavalry, and on Aug. 4th of the same year Brigader- General of Vol uDteers. It was with this rank that his name frst became conspicuously known to the Coun try, and such was his indomitable spirit and resistless energy, that Sedgwicks Brigade became among the most famous in the earl! history of the Army of the Potomac.
 In1s62, July 4th, he received his commission cf Major General, and since that time the his tory of his deeds is too fresh in the recollectio, ct all, to need recapitulation here. At Antie sam no was twice severely wounded, while lead 'ng ms division. under the gallant and lament ~ summer in the thickest of the fight, an, only left the field when faiuting from the los. ofblood. The Severe nature of these woupd compelled him to seek short furlourb, and i was then that he visited his beautiful home i, : Cornwall for the last time. Even ,bor. .u. rounded by all that was dearest and svsstes te him, he longed to return to his du,;es ;n .,, feld. He felt that his Country needaa h; services, and he could hardly wait till hi; wounds were healed, before he was back ara;, in the saddle- Thanksgiving,day, 1862, was tn Dast hs spent with his friends and kindred, an sbs fHssisg week he was again in camp.