Connecticut western news., 1909-02-25
MONUMENT ID
 GENERAL SEDGW|CK
ON THE GETTYSBURG BATTLEFIELD
A Bill has Been Introduced in the Connecticut Legislature Providing for a $25,OOO Appropriation for This Purpose.
This Purpose.

At the Capitol last week & hearing was given before the committee on ap- propriations on a bill introduced by Representative Sedgwick of litchfield providing for an appropriation of $25.OOO for the erection of a monument to Maj. Gen. John Sedgwick on the battlefield at Gettysburg. The Torrington Regis ter says: There is naturally great deal of interest in this bill as General Sedg- wick was without doubt Connecticut's greatest soldier. especially of the Civil war. Second to the name of Putnam is that of General Sedgwick in the memory of Connecticut's contribution to th1s nations military accomplishments.
 Litchfield county Is vastly interested in the success of this bill now before the appropriation committee because Gen eral Sedgwick was born in this county, and he stil1 has relatives in this county, among whom is Representative Sedg- wick of Litchfeld, who introduced the bill. It is considered an act of neglect
 
 nition to it's great soldier in the form of fitting monument among the many monuments on the field of Gettysburg. It is now hoped that the General As sembly will provide funds for such a monument. General Sedgwick was born in Cornwall, this county. Septem- Der 13, 1913. The main facts of his life were as follows:
 He was graduated at the U. s. Milf tary Academy in 1887; served as lieu, tenant in Mexican war, winning brevets of captain and major for gallantry; later promoted successiyely to major. ieuten- ant-colonel, and colonel of cavalry; commissioned brigadier- general of vol unteers in August, 1881; appointed major-general of volunteers July f, 1862; commanded a division at Antietam, where he was severely wounded three times; in December after battle of Antie- tam he was placed in command of the Ninth Corps; transferred February 1863 to command of Sixth Corps; occupied Fredericksburg May 3, 1863, and stormed Marye's Heights in rear of town; Joined main army at Charlottesville.
 , In the Pennsylvania campaign of 1863 the Sixth Corps formed the right wing of the army following the move ments of Lee, and on the evening of June 30 encamped at Manchester, up- ward of B miles from Gettysburg. The events of July demanded the nasty concentration of the army, and before 9 pm, of July Sedgwick reache d the field with his corps, having made the march of 35 miles in twenty hours. The corps was at once engaged, as also in the third days fight and pursuit of the enemy, July 5. At the battle of Rappahannock Station, Nov. 7, he com manded the right wing of the army, composed of the Fifth and Sixth Corps, as in the (Mine Run move) Nov. 26 to Dec. 3. Continuing in command of the Sixth Corps, he was conspicuous in the battle of the Wilderness (May 5-6. 1884, ) as in the battle of Spottsylvania, May g, where he was killed by the bullet from a sharpshooter while directing the plac- ing of some artillery. A monument wrought of cannon captured by the Sixth Corps was erected to his memory at West Point in 1868. General Sedg- wick was by far the greatest Connecti- cut soldier in the civil war.