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Famous Last Words Virtual Cache

A cache by Ted Message this owner
Hidden : 7/23/2001
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"They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance."

Fifth in a series of little known Civil War sites around Virginia. Site where Major General John Sedgwick, Commander of the Union VI Corps, was killed by a Confederate sniper. He was the highest-ranking Union Officer killed in the Civil War.

Sedgwick's Chief of Staff, Martin McMahon, recorded an account of the event. You can find it at https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/death-john-sedgwick.

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