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1851.
William Dwight Sedgwick.
First Lieutenant 2d Mass. Vols. (Infantry), May 25, 1861; Major and A. A. G. U. S. Vols., September 16, 186; died at Keedysville, Md., September 29, 1862, of a wound received at Antietam, September 17.
William Dwight Sedgwick was the only son of Charles and Elizabeth (Dwight) Sedgwick, and was born in Lenox, Massachusetts, June 27, 1831.
Till the age of fourteen years he was brought up almost entirely at home, when his father sent him to Illinois to spend a summer with a farmer who was a relative, and who then lived in a log-house.
Here he learned and performed every kind of farm-work of which a boy of that age is capable, and confirmed a constitution originally excellent.
His father believed that, without some personal knowledge and experience of labor, he could not have a proper sympathy with laboring men. He spend one year at a French school, and one in a boys' school taught by Rev. Samuel P. Parker, in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, and
1853.
Wilder Dwight.
Major 2d Mass. Vols. (Infantry), May 24, 1861; Lieutenant-Colonel, nds received at Antietam, September 17.
Wilder Dwight, second son of William and Elizabeth Ameli Washington city, April 28, 1861. To Messrs. Wilder Dwight and George L. Andrews.
The plan w ating forces we quote the following:—
Major Dwight, of the Second Massachusetts, while gallant er.
Of this command of the skirmishers, Major Dwight's journal contains the following:—
At ire.
Colonel Andrews writes:—
Lieutenant-Colonel Dwight was mortally wounded within three fe .
The Rebels saw them, and began firing.
Colonel Dwight wanted us to go back to the regiment.
Sai m, yielded to the grief which overwhelmed him. Dwight threw his arm around his friend's neck, and, d to ask where the rest of the regiment was. Colonel Dwight called out: Who asked for the Second Regim folk bar upon the occasion of the death of Wilder Dwight, closes with the following words:—
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