Norwich bulletin., 1913-05-03
STATES STATUE TO GEN. SEDCWICK
Connecticuts Tribute to Brave Soldier Will be Ready Gettysburg in Short Time-Norwich G. A. R. Post Named After This Gallant Union General.

within a few weeks the statue erect
 ey the state of Connecticut to Ma
 General Jehn Sedgwiek will be in
 sion in Gettysburg, as the com
 wealth's memorial te enc of the
 ve leaders which it gave te the na-
 n in the time of the civil war, and
 10 less sSan a year after Gettysburg ssrs5ced his life on the field 6S FGttsylvania- Because of its access ss@.iity the monument has keen plae- od at Gettysburg, but with equal fit- ness it might have been placed at Spottsylvania- at Fredericksburg or at Antietanl- At Antietam, however, Sedgwick was not a corps commander being under Sumner there, but he was twice wounded in the engagement. He was i'm command of the Sixth corps of the Army of the Potomac when he en- tered fredericksburg in the operations sustpreceding Chancellorsv1lle; he was in command of the same corps at Get tysburE and he still held command when a bullet from the rifle of a Con- federRte sharpshooter killed him at Spottsylvania on the morning of May 2. 1884. It was his fate to be suc- ceeded by another Connecticut general, but the nation and his soldiers had good cause to mourn the stalwart figure of Uncle John. as the mem bers of the Sixth corps called him. v commander who brought the corps in a days march from Manchester, Mr. where Mead had stationed it, to Lstfss Round Top, in time for the .second days battle at Gettysburg.
 Norwich Post Named for Sedgwick.
 When Norwich took the lead of all cities in the state in institution of a Grand Army post, no name was con- sidered so fitting as that of this Con- necticut general. so that Post No. l, c. A R., formed in Norwich, had be- slowed upon it the name of Sedgw1ck-
 I've Other Monuments to Him.
 The monument is to stand in the national park at Gettysburg on Sedg- wick avenue just north of Little Round Top. where Sedgwick brought the sorely needed corps on the field in is perhaps three miles from the cen ter of the little city of Gettysburg, but it is near where the fighting was good fifty years ago, and 1t will not centuries stand in recognition of an efficient general, who never lost his head and who was too intent upon his duties to play politics. It will be a bronze equestrian figure, the work of H. K Bush-Brown, and will be placed in position in May, probably or at least it will be in place when Sedgwicks men and the other veterans visit the greatest of the battlefelds of the civil war. It will not be the cnIy monument to Sedgwick- because there are two in Cornwall Hollow, in which village he was born, and anoth- CT at West Point, where he graduated, somewhat to the surprise of the men who sent him there. It will be a flt- ting time to dedicate this new meno- rial fifty years after Gettysburg, where he distinguished himself and in the year which will see the centennial of his birth.
 Lsst Visit to Connecticut.
 Ills wounds at Antietam enabled General Sedgwick to come back to Connecticut for the last time in his lifetime A man of splendid physique, he chafed under his wounds and said at the time that if he was struck again he hoped the wound would be fatal at once. He had his wish, for the wound he received at Spottsylvania caused instant death. A year or more before Antfetam his old home in Cornwall Hollow had been burned, the house be- ing erected on the site of the one burned at the outbreak of the RevoIu- tionary war. and General Sedgwick set about having 1t rebuilt.
 The work had not been wholly com pleted when General Sedgwick last saw 1t. but he was greatly interested m the plans He gave orders regard ing the furnishings of his own room