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The death of General John Sedgwick.
condensed from a letter to General J. W. Latta, President of the Sedgwick Memorial association. by Martin T. Mcmahon, Brevet Major-General, U. S. V.; chief-of-staff, Sixth Corps.
On May 8th, 1864, the Sixth Corps made a rapid march to the support of Warren, near Spot-sylvania Court House.
We arrived there about 5 P. M., and passed the rest of the day in getting into position on Warren's left.
After nightfall General Sedgwick rode back into an open field near General Warren's headquarters and, with his staff, lay down on the grass and slept until daylight.
Shortly after daylight he moved out upon his line of battle.
We had no tents or breakfast during that night or morning.
The general made some necessary changes in the line and gave a few unimportant orders, and sat down with me upon a hard-tack box, with his back resting against a tree.
The men, one hundred feet in front, were just finishing a line of rifle-pits, which ran to the rig