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r) E S C R I PT ION 
 
 CEREMONY OF DEDICATION 
 
 S T A^T XJ E 
 
 MAJOE-GENEIUL JOHN SEDGWICK, 
 
 U. S. VOLUNTEERS, COLONEL FOURTH U. S. CAVALRY, 
 
 OCTOBER 21, 1868. 
 
 INCLUDING 
 
 THE ORATION OF HON. GEORGE ¥. CURTIS 
 
 ON THE OCCASION. 
 
 
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 NEW YORK: 
 
 D. VAN NOSTRAND, PUBLISHER, 
 
 23 Murray Street and 27 Warrbn Street. 
 
 1869. 
 

PROCEEDINGS. 
 
 Early in November, 1864, the Sixth Corps being 
 then encamped on Cedar Creek, in the Valley of the 
 Shenandoah, Major-General H. Gr. Wright, the corps 
 commander, called together the division and brigade 
 commanders, and at this meeting it was proposed 
 and decided to erect at West Point, N. Y., a bronze 
 statue of Major-General John Sedgwick, who had 
 recently been killed while in command of the corps. 
 A Committee, consisting of the corps and division 
 commanders, was appointed to effect this design. 
 The funds estimated to be necessary were promptly 
 supplied by the corps, and were placed in the hands 
 of Bvt. Colonel W. S. Franklin, Treasurer of the 
 Committee. 
 
 May 19th, 1868, a contract was made with Mr. 
 Launt Thompson, sculptor — a copy of which is ap- 
 pended. Congress, by the following Act, directed 
 that the requisite amount of bronze should be sup- 
 plied : 
 
L~[PUBLIC RESOLUTION— No. 37.] 
 
 A RESOLUTION DONATING CERTAIN CAPTURED ORDNANCE FOR THE 
 COMPLETION OF A MONUMENT TO THE MEMORY OF THE LATE 
 MAJOR-GENERAL JOHN SEDGWICK, 
 
 Resolved hy the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
 United States of America in Congress assembled, That the 
 Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and re- 
 quired to place in charge of Major-General H. G. Wright, 
 Major-General Frank Wheatou, Major-General George W. 
 Getty, and Major-General Truman Seymour, three bronze 
 cannon, captured by the Sixth Army Corps in battle, for the 
 construction of a statue of the late Major-General John 
 Sedgwick, to be placed on a monument erected to his 
 memory by the Sixth Corps of the Ai-my of the Potomac. 
 
 Approved July 3, 1868. 
 
 The model was completed in clay in July, 1868. 
 The casting in bronze was made by Robert Wood & 
 Co., at Philadelphia, Pa., on 20th of August, 1868, 
 and it was completed by L. A. Amoreux, of New 
 York. The stone pedestal was constructed by Alex- 
 ander Edwards, of Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 The Committee gave public notice of the inaugu- 
 ration in the journals of the day, which was widely 
 republished throughout the country. Especial invi- 
 tation was extended to many distinguished Govern- 
 ment and State officials, letters from some of whom 
 are here appended. 
 
 The Committee, after discharging all pecuniary 
 obligations, found that a sufficient sum remained to 
 
admit of the publication of these papers, and beHev- 
 ing that such an appropriation would best subserve 
 the interests committed to their charge, have caused 
 five hundred copies to be printed for the use of the 
 corps. 
 
 H. G. Wright, 
 Late 3faj.-Gen. U. S. Vols., (JommaiuUr Gth Army 
 GorpH, and Bvt. MaJ.-Gen. U. S. A. 
 
 Geo. W. Getty, 
 Late Bvt. Maj.-Gen. of Vols., Gommander M Div. 
 &h Armij Gorps, and Bvt. Maj.-Gen. U. S. A. 
 
 Feank Wheaton, 
 Late Bvt. Maj.-Gen. of Vols., Gommander 1st Dia. 
 6th Army Gorps, and Bvt. Maj.-Gen. U. S. A. 
 
 Teuman Seymour, 
 Late Bvt. 3Iaj.-Gen. of Vols., Gommander M Div. 
 6th Army Gorps, and Bvt. Maj.-Gen. U. S. A. 
 
Headquarters United States Military Academy, 
 
 West Point, N. Y., Odoher 20, 1868. 
 
 Special Orders, \ 
 
 No. 22. j" 
 
 Tlie formal dedication and unveiling of the statue erected 
 in memory of the late Major-General John Sedgwick, com- 
 mander of the Sixth Army Corps, who fell in the battle of 
 Spottsylvania on the 9th of May, 1864, will take place on 
 Wednesday, the 21st instant. 
 
 The following arrangement of the exercises, prepared by 
 the Committee in charge, will be observed on the occasion, 
 viz. : 
 
 I. 
 
 ORDER OF PROCESSION. 
 
 The line will be formed at three o'clock p. m., with the 
 right opposite the west tower of the Cadet Barracks. 
 
 Immediately thereafter the procession will move to the 
 site, under the command of Brevet Major-General H. G. 
 Wright, U. S. Army, in the following order : 
 
 1. Battery of Light Artillery. 
 
 2. Music — consisting of Mihtary Academy Band, Gov- 
 ernor's Island Band, First U. S. Artillery Band. 
 
 3. Battalion of Cadets. 
 
 4. Family and relatives of the late Major-General John 
 Sedgwick. 
 
 5. Orator, Monument Committee, Chaplain, and Mr. 
 Launt Thompson, artist. 
 
6. President of the United States and Heads of the 
 Executive Departments. 
 
 7. General U. S. Grant and Staff. 
 
 8. Governors of States, and their Suites. 
 
 9. Senators and Members of the U. S. House of Eep- 
 resentatives. 
 
 10. Members of the Sixth Army Corps. 
 
 11. Officers and Soldiers of the Volunteer and Eegular 
 Forces. 
 
 12. Officers of the Navy and Marine Corps. 
 
 13. Officers and Professors of the Military Academy. 
 
 14. Citizens desirous of participating in the ceremony- 
 
 II. 
 
 ORDER OF PROCEEDINGS. 
 
 1. Prayer by the Chaplain, Eev. John W. French. 
 
 2. Music— {Stahat Mater.) 
 
 3. Unveiling of the Statue— " Present arms, rolls and 
 battery salute of thirteen guns." 
 
 4. Oration, by the Hon. George W. Curtis, of New 
 York. 
 
 5. Music— (M)ses in Egypt) 
 
 6. Benediction by the Chaplain. 
 
 7. Music. 
 
 By command of Brevet Brigadier-General Pitcher. 
 
 Edward C. Boynton, 
 Brevet Major and Adjutant. 
 
^xmjm lii tie ^gm. M$M If. gxm^h §. §., 
 
 FOR THE GOVEENMENT. 
 
 Almigkty God, from whom the blended voices of liberty 
 and law flow forth forever, sounding alike in Thy works 
 and word ; who hast taught us, by thy lessons in his- 
 tory, that we must so unite them in all good" govern- 
 ment, as to shelter men from the desolations alike of 
 anarchy and of tyranny, we bless Thy holy name for 
 their union in our American institutions. So may Thy 
 benedictions rest perpetually on aU the branches of the 
 National Government, on all the States, and the whole 
 united people, that aU of them may shine together in 
 their constellated array, image of the pattern which 
 Thou hast set before us in the heavens, among all pos- 
 terities forevermore. So may they stand in their order, 
 none of them ever fainting in their watches, that they 
 may be a light to lighten the nations, and the glory 
 and blessing of a Christian people. We ask it through 
 Him who taught us to render what is theu-s to gov- 
 ernments, and to Thee what is Thine, even Jesus Christ 
 Thy Son, our Lord. Amen. 
 
FOE THE ARMY AND NAVY. 
 
 Lord God of Hosts, be pleased to receive into Thy 
 Almighty and most gracious protection the Navy and 
 Army of the United States. May Thy blessing rest on 
 all who command and all who serve. On sea or land, 
 in peace or war, may they deserve and receive the af- 
 fection of their countrymen. Under Thy benediction 
 may the schools of both services be nurseries for pro- 
 ducing men — men, like him whom we remember to-day, 
 conscientious, accomplished, brave, loyal, benevolent. In 
 all ages, under law, and supporting law, may Navy and 
 Army be the means, under Thy Providence, for giving 
 to us, Thy people, a sheltered spot, where, in the agi- 
 tations of this mortal life, we may lead quiet and 
 peaceable lives, in all that thou ever approvest, and in 
 all that men ever honor. Grant this, O Lord, for the 
 glory of our Master, our Friend, our Life-Giver, Jesus 
 Christ, Amen. 
 
 FOR A BLESSING ON THE OCCASION. 
 
 O Fountain of primal and everlasting love, issuing 
 for us forever, in the mercy of the Spirit that leads, of 
 the Son that frees, and of the Father that adopts us, 
 may our love even in its feebleness, answer in har- 
 mony to Thine in its unspeakable fulness. May we re- 
 joice whenever in this world, not darkened by Thee but 
 by sin, disinterested love brings out from human hearts 
 their love in return ! On this occasion, when from a 
 smitten corps of the army, and from the hand of those 
 refining arts which Thou hast sent forth as civilizers 
 among mankind, there rises before us a beautiful tribute 
 from the love of soldiers to a grand, brave, loving com- 
 
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 mander, we ask that the lessons embodied in the life 
 and death of him whom we honor may never be lost. 
 We ask not only that around both the graves and the 
 sculptured images of heroes may ascend, in men's hearts, 
 as23irations to be likewise heroes in defence of land and 
 law, but we specially ask that the young persons who 
 will daily pass by this spot, and the thousands who will 
 visit it, may catch its peculiar instructions : that the 
 tragedies of war are to be brightened by tender mer- 
 cies ; that the true commander is to see in his soldiers 
 his children, and in subdued enemies his brothers ; and 
 that with and after all labors of head in campaign 
 or battle, must work the anxieties of the heart that 
 no needless suffering may come upon one of Thy hu- 
 man family. So may the voice breathing of loving- 
 kindness from this statue blend with the ten thousand 
 voices coming from Thy blessed word, and coming from 
 this Thy temple of nature, rising all around us with its 
 majestic walls in tinted loveliuess, and so blended that 
 we may be guided by them all, imder Thy Spirit sent 
 from Thine own deeps of purity and love, to walk in 
 love as Thou hast loved us — love in which we may for- 
 get ourselves for Thee and for each other. We ask it 
 through Him who came to us in His tender charity, 
 and taught us when we pray to say : 
 
 Our Father which art iu heaven, hallowed be Thy name. 
 Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth, as it is 
 in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive 
 us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not 
 into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the 
 kingdom, and the power, and the glory, fur ever. Amen. . 
 
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 Undeb this October skj, among these historic hills, with 
 this historic river flowing at our feet ; here, upon ground 
 that Washington once trod, and which knew the dark- 
 est tragedy of the Revolution ; beneath that flag, the 
 bright morning star of hope to the nations — the flag 
 that now floats unchallenged from this central post to the 
 remotest frontier; surrounded by fields golden with im- 
 measurable harvests, by homes of happiness and peace, 
 by hearts of fidelity to country and to man, we come to 
 honor the memory of the brave and modest soldier who 
 died to give to our homes that peace, to confirm in our 
 hearts that fidelity, to keep those fields prosperous and 
 secure — your father, men of the Sixth Corps — our soldier, 
 fellow-citizens — the silent, affectionate, heroic leader, whom 
 the eye desiring sees not, whom the ear attentive hears 
 
 not : 
 
 ' ' Whose part in all tlie pomp that fills 
 The circuit of the summer hills, 
 Is, that his grave is green." 
 
 " Death hath this also, " says Bacon, " that it openeth 
 the gate to good fame. " But good fame, in turn, con- 
 quers death. He is not dead, although we no more see 
 him. Behold how vast and various is his life ! In this fail- 
 and noble statue he lives again. On the most heroic 
 page of our history he lives and moves. In your hearts 
 he is immortal. In the deeper splendor of the flag he 
 
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 bore, in the supremacy of the Union he maintained, in 
 the equality in that Union which he secured, in the larger 
 power and increased justice of the regenerated country 
 that he served, John Sedgwick lives now and shall live 
 forever. Natural, and noble, and beautiful is the instinct 
 that inspires our hands to build monuments to the illustri- 
 ous dead. We carve their names upon memorial stone ; 
 exquisitely the sculptor moulds their forms in bronze or 
 marble ; but they carve their names upon history — they 
 impress civilization with their likeness ; and whiter than 
 marble, more lasting than bronze, is the monument which 
 their influence builds in our pur€;r purposes and nobler 
 lives. The American Union is the great monument of 
 Washington and the men of the Eevolution ; the Ameri- 
 can Union as the secm-ity of equal rights is the monu- 
 ment of Sedgwick, and of three hundi-ed thousand of 
 our brothers who rest with him. 
 
 The tale of his life is the simple story of a brave and 
 good man who did his duty, and died in doing it. Sedg- 
 wick was but one of the soldiers of the Union, in the 
 fierce struggle with which the land still rocks and the 
 air thrills. That struggle is as old as history. It is 
 fought by the tongue and pen as earnestly as with the 
 sword and shell. It is the contest for the largest indivi- 
 dual fi'eedom. Now it is a nation fighting for independ- 
 ence ; then a man asserting moral and intellectual liberty. 
 Now it is Leonidas and the Persians Unked in the death- 
 struggle at Thermopylae ; then it is Galileo wrestling with 
 the Inquisition. There, upon the continent of Europe, it 
 is Philip II. and the Netherlands ; again, in England, it 
 is the King and Parliament. Yesterday, it was the Co- 
 lonies against the mother country ; to day, it is the Union 
 against the Confederacy. Three hundred years ago, it was 
 
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 Gerard shooting the Prince of Orange ; three years ago, it 
 was Wilkes Booth shooting Abraham Lincoln. But every- 
 where and always, in whatever crude and imperfect form, 
 it is a movement of the same conflict — it is the struggle 
 between those who declare that some men have no rights 
 and those who hold the truth to be self-evident that all 
 men are created equal. 
 
 In Europe, three centuries ago, the cause of the people 
 took form as the Protestant Keformation, and, transferred 
 to the battle-field, was the thirty years' war. In England 
 — drawn to a finer point in the sermons of stern preach- 
 ers, in the debates in Parliament, in the loud snarl of 
 pamphlets — it was kno-wTi as Puritanism. But, at length, 
 it was preaching and debating no longer. At Edgehill, 
 John Pym's speeches had become pikes and Charles's 
 falsehoods, swords. The Cavalier fought for privilege ; 
 the Puritan, for the people. The struggle was fierce and 
 long, and, when the smoke of battle rolled away, 
 Puritanism remained bivouacked upon the field. But its 
 complete victory was reserved for another country and 
 another continent. The old Puritanism was, doubtless, 
 gloomy and severe — the tree that bore the ros}' and deH- 
 cate fruit of American liberty was knotted and gnarled. 
 But, while the Cavalier, the Tory, and the aristocrat, 
 here as everywhere, have always derided Puritanism, re- 
 member that the greatest of all English rulers was a Puri- 
 tan ; the greatest of all English poets but one, was a Puritan. 
 The Puritan policy abroad swept the Mediterranean of 
 pirates, and protected the Protestants of France and 
 Savoy. The Puritan policy at home defended civil and 
 religious liberty against despotism, mitred as a bishop 
 and crowned as a king. Across the sea, it planted the 
 rocks of New England with the seed of popular liberty 
 
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 and equal rights. The harvest is as vigorous as the soil, 
 for freedom is a rude plant, and loves the cooler lati- 
 tudes. In the auspicious air of a new continent, the 
 Puritan spirit became modified and enlarged. Out of 
 strength came forth sweetness. Government by church 
 members became government by the people. John Pym 
 became James Otis. The larger and generous Puritanism 
 of America inspired the Eevolution. They were Puri- 
 tan guns whose echo is endless upon Bunker Hill. It 
 was the Puritan spii-it that spoke in the Declaration of 
 Independence. ' It was the Puritan will that shook the 
 glittering hand of the Cavalier Burgoyne from the Hudson. 
 It was to the Puritan idea that Cornwalhs surrendered 
 at Yorktowu, and, eighty-three years later, it was the 
 Cavalier who again surrendered to the Puritan under the 
 Appomattox apple-tree. Those stem, sad men in peaked 
 hats, who prayed in camp and despised love-locks, and 
 at whom fiibbles in politics laugh and sneer to-day, 
 were the indomitable vanguard of moral and political 
 freedom. If they snuffled in prayer, they smote in fight ; 
 if they sang through their noses, the hymn they chanted 
 was liberty ; if they aimed at a divine monarchy, they 
 have founded the freest, the most enlightened, the most 
 prosperous, the most powerful Republic in history. 
 
 As we look back to-day upon that tremendous conflict, 
 we see, emerging from the bitter smoke, the grim cham- 
 pion of the people — Oliver Cromwell — and, by his side, 
 there rides a sturdy Puritan, Major - General Robert 
 Sedgwick. When Cromwell became Protector, he sent 
 his General as commissioner to Jamaica, and, when the 
 King returned, the Puritan decided to remain in America. 
 "E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires," and, more 
 than a centuiy after Naseby and Worcester, a descend- 
 
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 ant of Kobert Sedgwick, a Major in the Revolution- 
 ary army, defended the good old cause at Valley Forge. 
 At the end of the war, he was made a Major-General 
 of Militia, and his house, which the Connecticut Tories 
 had burned while he was away, was rebuilt for him by 
 his townsmen. It was in the little town of Cornwall, 
 in the pleasant valley of the Housatonic, in the north- 
 west part of Connecticut — the State of Putnam and of 
 Wooster — ^and there his grandson — our General John — 
 was born, on the 13th of September, 1813. He is re- 
 membered as a quiet farmer's boy, going to the com- 
 mon school, and working in the peaceful fields of Corn- 
 wall Hollow — a generous, manly lad, a natural leader 
 among his companions. But the spirit of the Ironside 
 trooper and of the Continental volunteer was in his 
 blood, and, as a little boy, he called himself " General 
 John Sedgwick." 
 
 Thus, a soldier, born of soldiers, on the 1st of July, 
 1833, when he was twenty years old, he came here to 
 the MiUtary Academy, where, three years later, he was 
 graduated, and was promoted Second Lieutenant of the 
 Second Artillery. He served immediately in the Florida 
 war against the Indians ; a little later, upon the North- 
 ern frontier, during the Canadian border troubles, and 
 was engaged in recruiting at various stations. Thirty 
 years ago, the profession of arms in this country did 
 not seem to be very alluring ; but it is very much to 
 those whom it did allure that we owe our national ex- 
 istence. This academy, indeed, is accused of aristo- 
 cratic tendencies, of educating a class of men in a re- 
 pubhc, not to be self-respecting and thoughtful citizens 
 but deaf and dumb and blind instruments merely. If 
 the charge be true, it is fatal to West Point. If West 
 
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 Point be a machme, in which those born and bound 
 to be moral and responsible men and citizens are ground 
 into slaves, then it is the most pernicious and perilous 
 of all institutions in the country. For why has a large 
 standing army always been considered the cm*se of lib- 
 erty, and the enemy of civilization ? Becaiise a king 
 and a ministry depend upon it to defy reason, human- 
 ity, justice, and common-sense. Because the army was 
 regarded as a vast, insensate trip-hammer, and the king, 
 plus the trip-hammer, might pulverize the people at his 
 pleasure. Jiut the moment the trip-hammer begins to 
 think, that moment the hand of tyranny is relaxed, and 
 the people are relieved. 
 
 A republic is possible only among thinking men. In 
 a republic, therefore, political interest and power are 
 not a privilege of the few ; they are the imjDerative duty 
 of all. Every man need not be a skilled politician, but 
 no man has a right permanently to seclude himself from 
 knowledge and interest in public affairs. The only hope 
 for all is in the general intelligence and the general 
 conscience, and there can be no general knowledge if 
 individual men and classes are willing to be ignorant. 
 Therefore it is that, in this country, while every man is 
 true to the conditions of the Republic, there is no need 
 of a huge standing army, for the great body of the cit- 
 izens is the army. The arms they bear, in Kossuth's 
 phrase, are bayonets that think, and the officers whom 
 they professionally educate are no more justified in re- 
 nouncing the fimdamental duties of citizens than the 
 rest of the people. The American citizen who, under 
 the plea that he is a soldier, excuses himself from po- 
 litical responsibility and duty, betrays his country. 
 Eighty years ago, when the French Guards refused to 
 
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 fire upon the people of Paris, Charles Fox said that the 
 French had abolished the fear of a standing army, be- 
 cause they had shown that in becoming a soldier a 
 man remained a citizen. A storm of reproach followed 
 his words; but if the spu-it of them be not true, a sol- 
 dier is the most contemptible of men. Discipline and 
 obedience, indeed, are indispensable to military service ; 
 but when the position of any honorable man anywhere 
 requires him to do what seems to him unjust, mean, 
 wicked, he will resign his position, and retain his man- 
 ly honor. In your name, gentlemen, and in your pres- 
 ence, here in the school in which our officers are trained, 
 I deny that to become a soldier is to cease to be a 
 citizen and a man. I deny that a soldier is a moral 
 monster, for whom right and wrong do not exist. I deny 
 that in a noble breast, whether in or out of uniform, 
 the sense of loyalty to the flag will be deeper and stronger 
 than that of loyalty to conscience and to manhood. And 
 if our own heaven-born Stars and Stripes should ever 
 become the black flag of infamy and injustice, it is an 
 insult to you, as to your fellow-citizens, to suppose that 
 you or they would imagine it to be an honorable duty 
 to bear it. We are citizens of the world before we are 
 citizens of any country ; we are men before we are 
 Americans — iibi libertas, tbi patria — and oui- duty as Ameri- 
 cans is to make America the home of noble men, and 
 that flag the flag of liberty for mankind. 
 
 In our late war, it was not the resignation of their 
 commissions by those who felt, however mistakenly in 
 our judgment, that they could not honestly fight under 
 the flag, which cast so deep an odium upon them. It 
 was not the conscience, it was the want of conscience. 
 It was not the honest conviction, it was the treachery 
 
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 that was so despicable. If Benedict Arnold, whose name 
 is so tragically associated with this spot, had honestly 
 resigned his commission, the consequeJice might, for a 
 time, have been deplorable, but his name would not be 
 infamous. It was the treachery that dooms him to 
 eternal execration. It was not Twiggs's wish to leave the 
 army, it was his base suiTender of men and material that 
 blackens his name. It was not the resignation of Lee 
 that forever marks him, it was his following the flag 
 which he confessed he saw no reason for unrolling. 
 The condemnation of all the West Pointers who resigned 
 was not of the soldiers, but of the men. It was that 
 they obeyed the authority of States, which they said 
 they held to be paramount, when that authority ordered 
 them to raise the flag of injustice and inhumanity. If 
 it be said that a soldier must obey commands, whatever 
 they may be, I reply that no honorable man will remain 
 for a moment in a position which demands dishonor. If 
 King Herod orders his ofiicer to slay all infants under 
 two years of age, he will refuse longer to be an officer 
 of Herod's, and, if every officer did so, Herod's mur- 
 ders would be left undone. "I have ever had in my 
 mind," said Algernon Sydney, " that when God should 
 cast me into such a condition as that I cannot save 
 my life but by doing an indecent thing, he shows me 
 the time has arrived wherein I sliould resign it;" and 
 when that time came he did resign it. He did not 
 say, " My King orders it, my State commands it ;" he 
 said, " My conscience forbids it," and he died. 
 
 But the records of the Academy show that the officers 
 educated here had not merged the man in the soldier. 
 They had retained and exercised the duties of citizens. 
 West Point, at least, had not made them machines ; 
 
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 and let the tree be judged by its fruit. In tlie month 
 of June, 1861, there were eight hundred and twenty 
 Hving graduates of West Point; from the Slave States 
 there were three hundred and eleven, of whom one 
 hundred and thirty-three refused to follow the fortunes 
 of their States. Add to those who resigned or were 
 dismissed, ten from the Free States, and, of the whole 
 eight hundred and twenty, only one hundred and ninety- 
 seven renounced the flag of the Union. " Nearly four- 
 fifths of its graduate officers remained faithful," says 
 General Oullum, in his biographical register of West 
 Point ; " one-half of those from the South stood firm by 
 the Stars and Stripes, and in the battles for the Union, 
 one-fifth of those engaged laid down their lives ; more 
 than one-thhd, and probably one-half, were wounded." 
 If the rebellion in the interest of the aristocracy was 
 officered by West Pointers, so was the people's army of 
 the Union ; and if the military chief of the rebellion had 
 been Superintendent of this Academy, he surrendered to 
 the military chief of the Union, who had been its pupil. 
 
 At the end of the Revolution General Washington was 
 made President, not only for his military renown, but for 
 those qualities which the people knew that they could 
 trust in the civil administration of the Republic. Wash- 
 ington, as President, recommended the estabhshment of 
 this Academy, and when, after the fierce but triumphant 
 struggle to save, upon the true principles of the Republic, 
 the Government and the Union which he founded, those 
 who have succeeded look to find a successor of his whose 
 character and career promise an administration which will 
 secure peace with hberty and honor, their eyes, their 
 hearts, and their hopes turn to a graduate of West 
 Point. 
 
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 It is not possible, and you will not expect, that I 
 should trace our soldier step by step in his career. Be- 
 fore the late war, his services were those of the officers 
 of his time, and he rose by brave and brilliant conduct 
 in the field and faithful duty out of it until the spring 
 of 1861 which found him Major of the First Cavahy, 
 and engaged in the building of Fort Wise, near Pike's 
 Peak, in Colorado. From this remote retirement the 
 shot at Sumter brought him into the constant and 
 conspicuous service in which the brief remainder of his 
 life was passed. In March, 1861, he was Lieutenant- 
 Colonel of the Second Cavalry ; in April, Colonel of the 
 First ; in August he was appoiated, in the place of Rob- 
 ert Edmund Lee, Colonel of the Fourth Cavalry, and in 
 the same month Brigadier-General of Volunteers, serving 
 in the defences of Washington and along the Potomac 
 in Maryland. When the Virginia Peninsula campaign 
 opened, John Sedgwick was a division commander, and 
 his story to his death is that of the Army of the Po- 
 tomac. 
 
 See how the story opened, for it ended as it began. 
 After the battle of Williamsburg, the first considerable 
 action was that of Fair Oaks and Seven Pines. The 
 mass of the Union army lay upon the eastern side of 
 the Chickahominy, and two corps, counting about thirty 
 thousand men, were upon the other shore. A furious 
 storm in the night promised to swell the river to an 
 impassable flood, and in the morning the whole rebel 
 force bore down upon the Union lines to annihilate one 
 wing of the army in full sound and sight of their 
 brothers, hopelessly separated from them. All the morn- 
 ing the battle hotly raged; the Union troops were slowly, 
 slowly, driven back. By noon the river began to rise. 
 
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 General Sumner who was upon the eastern shore, and in 
 whose corps General Sedgwick commanded a division, was 
 ordered to cross, and he sent word to Sedgwick, the 
 "always ready," as General Scott used to call him, to 
 advance ; but, as Sedgwick came toward the bridge, he 
 saw that the river had become a sea, sweeping fiercely 
 by. Far out in the midst of the waves a plank, appa- 
 rently anchored, showed the channel ; beyond the further 
 end of the plank the waters stretched for a quarter of a 
 mile. It was a perilous task to feel his way through 
 the water with a heavy battery of twenty-four guns, and 
 then to trust a fraU, trembling plank for the passage of 
 the channel. But the smoke and roar of the battle be- 
 yond the flood came nearer, and he knew that his breth- 
 ren were sorely pressed. After a calm, thoughtful sur- 
 vey, he gave the word " forward." Into the waters 
 moved the steady line ; the gun-carriages sunk almost to 
 the guns ; floundered, staggered. But painfuUy dragging 
 on, soldiers and batteries crossed the quivering bridge, 
 which was whirled away as they left it. Toiling again 
 through the swift water and the mhe, an hour and a 
 half before sunset Sedgwick came upon the field. The 
 rebels, flushed with success, were driving their victorious 
 columns as a wedge between the centre and the right of 
 our wavering forces, but, like his Ironside ancestor, 
 Sedgwick swiftly advanced, formed his line, opened his 
 batteries, and shattered the wedge. The wasted foe re- 
 coiled before his tremendous fire, his whole division in 
 blazing line of battle moved steadily on, seized the 
 stricken enemy, hurled him into the woods, and the battle 
 of Fair Oaks was won. 
 
 On the 4th of July, 1862, Sedgwick was made Major- 
 General of Volunteers. In all that great army, strugghng 
 
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 in the slimy toils of the Peninsula, there was no ofl&cer 
 more trusted and beloved thaii this most unobtrusive man, 
 this almost ideal American soldier. In person not tall, 
 with dark hair, dark, almost still eyes, with the tranquil as- 
 pect of reserved power, a man who did not talk much or 
 loudly, but who was always gayly chaffing his associates, 
 who was smilingly suspicious of newspaper fame, and never 
 went to Washington ; a man of u'on will, promptly obedient, 
 and therefore requiring exact obedience ; in council clear and 
 swift, in action every faculty nimbly alive, his powers in- 
 tensely concentrated, his soul glowing with eager pui^^ose, 
 as at a white-heat, but not mastered either by victory or de- 
 feat — he had all the cardinal soldierly qualities, the positive 
 masculine manly traits, but with them that depthless tender- 
 ness and sweet humor which complete the finest natures. 
 One night a young officer of his staff whom he tenderly 
 loved had been absent at a merry-making, and, losing his 
 way homeward, did not return until after daybreak. As he 
 entered, the General, who had feared some mischance to his 
 friend, with a severe air said inquiringly "Well, sir?" The 
 young officer, grieved with the apparent censure of the tone, 
 began eagerly to explain ; but the General's face softened 
 with inexpressible affection, and, rising, this man who never 
 knew wife or child, with a father's fondness laid his hand 
 upon the young man's shoulder and quietly kissed him. 
 
 Simple in his habits, and of a rustic modesty of manner, 
 Sedgwick's humor played pleasantly over every event. Sit- 
 ting one day at head-quarters, in plain undress, a Yankee 
 soldier sauntered up and said : " Say, old fellow, do you live 
 here about head-quarters ? Can you do a fellow a good 
 turn?" " I cannot exactly say," replied the General, "un- 
 til I know what it is." " I want an order on the Commissary 
 for a canteen of whisky for some friends who have come over 
 
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 to see me." " Well," said the General, " the Commissary 
 is a friend of mine, and you can try what friendship will do," 
 and he wrote a few words on the back of a letter, folded it, 
 and handed it to the soldier. The man looked at it, and 
 when he saw at the bottom " John Sedgwick,'' he raised his 
 wondering and abashed eyes, gazed long and with mingled 
 respect and affection at his commander, folded the paper 
 carefully and put it in his pocket. The Commissary never 
 saw it, but doubtless some wife, or child, or mother, or sweet- 
 heart, cherishes the story and the paper, and loves the 
 memory of John Sedgwick. 
 
 This was the man whom, early on the morning of the bat- 
 tle of Antietam, we see advancing in line under a terrible fire 
 through the famous bloody corn-field already won and lost. 
 Eicketts and Meade had driven the rebels back, and in thefr 
 tm^n had been overwhelmed. Hooker had demanded of 
 Doubleday his best brigade, and, joining it to the line that 
 Hartsuff led, once more the fiery rebel mass recoiled. Mans- 
 field had fallen ; Hartsuff was wounded ; Hooker himself 
 was wounded, and as he retfred the rebels threw fresh men 
 upon the field. These Sedgwick encountered. His orders 
 were to advance, but his quick eye saw at once the imminent 
 danger, for the supporting division was too far away. He 
 moved partly by the flank to cover the gap, but the enemy 
 saw it also and dashed swiftly in. Sedgwick's ranks waver- 
 ed ; they were shattered. Struck by a bullet in the leg, and 
 again in the wrist, pale and dripping with his own blood, he 
 rode among his soldiers, while the hurricane of fire and 
 death devoured them, and his mighty will strove to re-form 
 his melting columns and hold the enemy at bay ; but in the 
 midst a third shot struck him, and he was borne insensi- 
 ble from the field. He rejoined the army on December 22d, 
 1862, and on January 5th, 1863, John Sedgwick was placed 
 
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 in command of the Sixth Corps. It had loved its old com- 
 manders — Generals Franklin and "Baldy" Smith — and it 
 received a new leader coolly ; but brave men love a hero, 
 and when the story of Fair Oaks, of Seven Pines, of Antie- 
 tam, came thrilling from the warm hearts of Sedgwick's old 
 division of the Second Corps to the wilHng ears of the 
 Sixth, the Sixth, hearing what its new General had been, 
 knew what he would be, and the corps and the General 
 soon proved each other's quality. 
 
 ' When General Hooker decided upon the movement at 
 Chancellorsville, Sedgwick, with his own corps, twenty-two 
 thousand strong, and General Gibbon's division of the Second 
 Corps, six thousand strong, crossed the Bappahannock two or 
 three miles below Fredericksburg. He was ordered to 
 advance toward Chancellorsville, fall upon the rebel rear 
 simultaneously with Hooker in front, and so destroy the rebel 
 army. At three in the morning, under a bright moon, Sedg- 
 wick began his march ; the enemy immediately opened fire, 
 and at daylight Sedgwick, fighting his way, was entering 
 Fredericksburg instead of Chancellorsville. His advance was 
 impeded by the enemy intrenched upon Marye Heights, and 
 after disposing his men and planting his guns, Sedgwick gave 
 the order to assault. Forward went Newton's Second Divi- 
 sion, jubilant and resistless, like a great ghttering wave, and 
 swept straight over the hostile works. Then pressing on 
 with his own corps, leaving Gibbon at Fredericksburg, 
 General Sedgwick met the enemy at Salem Church. Mean- 
 while, Lee had baffled Hooker, and with a constantly increas- 
 ing force stayed Sedgwick's advance. All night the Sixth 
 Corps lay upon their arms ; Hooker was no longer an obstacle 
 to the rebel chief, and with the full force of his victorious 
 army Lee turned, struck Sedgwick in the flank, and the Sixth 
 Corps, which had achieved a success so splendid upon that 
 
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 tragical field, was enveloped in tlie general disaster of the 
 army. 
 
 As the Sixth Corps marched from battle to battle, from the 
 heights of Fredericksburg toward the hills of Gettysburg, the 
 indomitable will of the General urged the men so ardently 
 that they called themselves " Sedgwick's Cavalry," and 
 declared they were kept upon the gallop. They said he only 
 halted when his horse gave out, and when he stopped every 
 day to watch fi-om the roadside the passing columns, the 
 men shouted good-humoredly from the ranks, " Get another 
 horse and come on ; we'll wait for you, Uncle John ; we're in 
 no hurry. Uncle John ;" and if the General smiled, the shout 
 became a laugh, which broke along the ranks and echoed 
 from companies and rippled along regiments until whole 
 divisions rang with the loud response of merriment to " Uncle 
 John's " kind smile. But it was a weary march to 
 Pennsylvania in the frowning early summer of 1863, and 
 the eve of the battle of Gettysburg brought a dispatch 
 from General Meade which found General Sedgwick just 
 gone into camp after a hard day's toil. But he saw what 
 must be done, and at nine o'clock at night his columns 
 began the march. 
 
 All through the hot July night, after a weary day, 
 and at a quick step, they pushed manfully on — brave 
 boys who helped to save a nation. Sedgwick was never 
 more aroused. His unconquerable will nerved and moved 
 the long ranks of his army as the force of the ocean 
 urges the waves. If his Generals suggested that there 
 must be some rest or the corps would straggle, he replied 
 shortly : " Have you seen Meade's order ?" When the 
 corps made a brief halt for breakfast he ate nothing, 
 but passed constantly among the troops, then gave the 
 order to advance ; and when one of his officers was 
 
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 three minutes late in moving, the General exclaimed, 
 "Tell him if he is so tardy again I will — " but no 
 threat reached the trusty lieutenant, and none was 
 meant ; but the distant thunder of the great battle 
 even then announced the struggle, and the untiring 
 leader, his soldierly soul aflame, knew that his absence 
 might lose the day. This Ironside fervor again inspired 
 the men, and at two o'clock, foot-sore, staggering, 
 weary, having marched thirty miles since nine o'clock 
 the evening before, the columns of the Sixth Coq^s came 
 upon the memorable field. They were exhausted and 
 held in reserve ; but so sharp and furious was the 
 struggle that their aid was constantly demanded, and 
 Sedgwick sent brigade after brigade of those indomitable 
 soldiers, who stayed the rebel onsets, and so had their 
 glorious part in the crowning field of Gettysburg, that 
 drove armed rebellion from the loyal States, and gave 
 the true heart of patriotism an exulting faith in final 
 victory. 
 
 Before going into winter-quarters, the army forced the 
 passage of the Rappahannock at Rappahannock Station. 
 The enemy was intrenched upon the hither side of 
 the river. Against this position Sedgwick led the Fifth 
 and Sixth Corps, under instructions to push the enemy 
 across that day. Until sunset the artillery thundered in 
 vain. Then General Wright, commanding the Sixth 
 Corps, directed General Russell to carry the position 
 by infantry assault; and Russell leading through the 
 fiery hail from the rifle pits, through the smoke, and 
 roar, and dust of the storm of battle, his frail and silent 
 and unfaltering line, advanced steadily across that dread- 
 ful field into the "jaws of death, into the mouth of 
 hell," and never spoke until the bayonets clashed, and 
 
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 then his word was " Surrender ; " and as the enemy 
 crumbled and fled, the "Boys in Bkie" rent the air 
 with three triumphant Yankee cheers, and " Uncle John " 
 knew that his trusty children of the Sixth Corps had 
 done it. 
 
 In the following winter, during the illness of General 
 Meade, General Sedgwick commanded the Army of the Po- 
 tomac. The winter wearing away, the most ample 
 preparation was made for the operations of the year, 
 and with the opening spring the Lieutenant-Gen eral 
 commanding the armies of the United States began the 
 last campaign against the rebellion. You, gentlemen, 
 helped to make the history which I describe — the fa- 
 mous story at which the world still wonders, with 
 which the loyal heart of the country beats forever 
 grateful. 
 
 But before we mark the individual part of Sedgwick 
 in * that great campaign, let us see it as a whole. On 
 April 30th, 1865, President Lincoln wrote to Lieuten- 
 ant-General Grant : " And now, with a brave army and 
 a just cause, may God sustain you." And, indeed, if 
 the names of those who win battles that save civiliza- 
 tion are dear to the heart of man, how cherished will 
 be that of the taciturn, tenacious soldier, whom nothing 
 could shake off from success ! Neither the tool of po- 
 litical tricksters, nor the dupe of his own ambition, he 
 shewed himself, in the final campaign, the time type 
 of American genius in action. Grimly in earnest, he 
 knew that war is not conciliation, and that the rebel- 
 lion was to be suppressed, and suppressed only by the 
 destruction of rebel life and rebel supplies. He knew 
 that he could better lose a hundred lives than the re- 
 belhon could lose fifty ; and he knew also that terrible 
 
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 sacrifice was the least bloody road to peace. Breaking 
 up on the Rapidan, early in May, he forced his fiery way 
 through the Wilderness, and was called a butcher. By 
 terrible blows, he drove the enemy ; by swift and silent 
 marches, he flanked him, and was called a blunderer. By 
 one of the most masterly and daring of military move- 
 ments, his resistless will threw his whole army over the 
 James, and forced the enemy into his capital, and he was 
 called incapable. The roses of June faded, and the victory 
 was not won. The bells of the fourth of July died away, 
 and the "vdctory was not won. The auxiliary operations 
 in the Shenandoah failed ; those to the south of Rich- 
 mond miscarried ; public impatience grew, and passionate 
 doubt and despondency clouded the summer. " Will he 
 do it ?" asked, in whispers, the lovers of liberty. " He'll 
 do no more," shouted the exultant friends of the re- 
 bellion. They did not know the man. They did not 
 remember Yicksburg ; they did not remember Chatta- 
 nooga. " I shall fight it out on this line, if it takes 
 all summer," was the only reply. It did take all sum- 
 mer. It took all winter. But he fought it out, and 
 followed that hne to victory. 
 
 Undismayed by delay, undisturbed by impatience, hold- 
 ing Richmond in both hands, he ordered Thomas to anni- 
 hilate Hood — and he did it. He ordered Terry to take 
 Fort Fisher — and he took it. He ordered Sheridan to 
 sweep the Shenandoah — and he scoured it clean. And 
 Sherman — where was he ? Suddenly the thick cloud of 
 loyal doubts and fears and of rebel rumors parted, and 
 revealed Sherman sauntering through Georgia, eating tur- 
 keys and sweet potatoes. Like a gnat. Wade Hampton 
 hovered upon his path, trying to sting, and was brushed 
 away. A gast of Wheeler's cavalry blew oflf Kilpatrick's 
 
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 liat. Fort McAllister crumbled at Sherman's touch. Hardee 
 stole from Savannah like a thief in the night. The terror 
 of Sherman's presence a hundred miles away emptied 
 Charleston of rebel troops, as when a huge craft passes 
 in the river the waters recede from the distant lands. 
 Across Georgia, across South Carolina, into North Carolina, 
 he moved unopposed, spreading his terrible wings, and 
 scourging the land with fire. Then, with the accumulated 
 force of fragments, Johnston dashed against one of his arms 
 at Bentonville. Sherman threw him prostrate in the dust 
 with one hand, and stretched out the other to grasp that 
 of his great commander on the James. The silent Captain 
 by the river, still holding his antagonist fast in his capital, 
 had now shown, by the end of March, that the army of 
 that antagonist was the rebellion, and he prepared to strike. 
 At the extreme left of his line the sting of the swift and 
 fiery Sheridan struck the enemy first. He winced and 
 suddenly recoiled. But sharper gi*ew the sting ; swifter, 
 and more fiery, until the word came, " Sheridan is sweep- 
 ing all before him from the West !" Then the genius of 
 the great Captain, seconded by the tireless valor of his 
 soldiers, lightened all along the line, struck everywhere 
 at once, burst over the enemy's works, crushed his ranks, 
 forced his retreat, and at the same moment the master 
 loosening his victorious columns in pursuit, choked the 
 rebel flight, and overwhelmed Lee and his army as the 
 Ked Sea engulfed Pharaoh and his host. So opened and 
 closed the great campaign. So the Army of the Potomac, 
 often baffled, struck an immortal blow, and gave the right 
 hand of heroic fellowship to their brethren of the West. 
 So the silent Captain, when all his lieutenants had secured 
 thefr separate fame, put on the crown of victory and ended 
 civil war. 
 
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 But with what mournful and pitying eyes did Liberty 
 survey lier triumph, bought, as all her great triumphs 
 have have been, Avith tears, and blood, and heart-break. 
 How truly sang her poet amid the ghastly tempest of 
 battle : 
 
 "We wait beueath the furuace blast 
 The pangs of trausforniatiou ; 
 Not paiulessly doth God recast 
 Aud moukl anew the nation !" 
 
 From the happy homes among the hills aud valleys, 
 upon the seaside and the prairie, three hundred thousand 
 brave and beloved had marched to the field and returned 
 no more. Him, also, whom your hearts recall, whom his 
 country remembers, who fondly said, as he stood at his 
 door, looking out upou the soft Housatonic landscape, " Is 
 there another spot on earth so beautiful as Cornwall Hol- 
 low?" him, also, the green fields of Cornwall Hollow shall 
 behold no more. 
 
 Emerging from the Wilderness, on the 9th of May, 1864, 
 the army was concentrated around Spottsylvania Com-t- 
 house, General Sedgwick aud his corps holding the left of 
 the line. It was Monday morning, and the General was 
 watching his men place the guns. He was sitting under a 
 tree, talking with General MacMahon, his Adjutant-General, 
 and warm personal friend, one of the young heroes whom 
 the war discovered and developed, and whose brilliant ser- 
 vice and rapid promotion showed how wisely Sedgwick chose 
 his men.* The General was speaking proudly and tenderly 
 of his staff and his corps, when, observing some mistake in 
 
 *General Macilahou, now Minister to Paragnay, is understood to he pre- 
 paring a Life of General Si'dgwick ; and I am lunch indebted to a biographical 
 paper written bj' him immediately after the death of the General. 
 
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 the work of his men, he said abruptly : " That's wrong." 
 He and his Adjutant were together, and as they moved to- 
 ward the working parties the rebel sharpshooters began to 
 fire. The sokliers dodged as the bullets whistled. " Come, 
 come, men ! " said the General smihng ; " dodging for single 
 bullets ! Why, they could'nt hit an elephant at this dis- 
 tance." " Ah ! General," said one of the men behind a tree, 
 " I've tried it, and I believe in dodging." " Very well, my 
 man," said Sedgwick, " go to your place ; but I tell you they 
 can't hit an elephant here." He turned, still smiling, to con- 
 tinue the conversation with his Adjutant, who, at the instant, 
 heard the sharp, low, singing sound of a bullet ending dully, 
 and Sedgwick sank slowly to the ground. His friend, Mac- 
 Mahon, vainly tried to support him. He bent over him, and 
 spoke to him with passionate eagerness ; but Sedgwick did 
 not answer. His eyes were closed ; his hands were clasped ; 
 the sweet smile lingered upon his face. A little blood 
 trickled down the cheek from beneath the left eye. His 
 heart beat gently for a moment — and was stiU. 
 
 The country heard of his death as of the loss of an army. 
 It was concealed from his soldiers, lest they should be un- 
 nerved in battle. Then from the sylvan bower in the old 
 woods of Spottsylvania, in which he was tenderly laid that 
 morning, Connecticut, remembering Putnam and Wooster ; 
 Connecticut, mother of the Grants and the Shermans, of 
 Ellsworth, Winthrop, Ward, and Lyon ; who had sent her 
 children to every famous field of the war, — received, with love 
 and sorrow, and with perpetual proud remembrance, the 
 dead body of John Sedgwick. On the Sunday after he fell, 
 borne by his neighbors, amid the tears of silent thousands, 
 and wrapped in the flag, he was buried in Cornwall Hollow. 
 No miUtary salute was fired above his grave ; but one soli- 
 
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 tary peal of distant thunder sublimely suggested the soldier's 
 life and death. 
 
 Sedgwick died, but the victory was won. What was the 
 victory ? It was twofold. First, it was the revelation of an 
 overpowering national instinct as the foundation of the Union. 
 It dissipated old theories ; it interpreted the Constitution. 
 Plant a homogeneous people under one government along 
 the coast of a virgin continent ; let them gradually over- 
 spread it to the farther sea, speaking the same language, 
 virtually of the same religious faith, intermarrying, and cher- 
 ishing common heroic traditions ; suppose them sweeping 
 from end to end of their vast domain without passports; 
 the physical perils of their increasing extent constantly modi- 
 fied by science ; steam and the telegraph making Maine and 
 Oregon neighbors ; their trade enorinous, their prosperity a 
 miracle, their commonwealth of unsurpassed power and im- 
 portance in the world, and you may theorize of divided 
 sovereignty as you will, but you have supposed an imperial 
 nation which may indeed be a power of evil as well as of 
 good, but which, until it is fatally demoralized, can no more 
 recede into its original elements and local sources than this 
 abounding river, pouring broad and resistless to the sea, can 
 turn backward to the petty forest springs and rills whence it 
 flows. " No, no," murmurs the exultant river ; " when you 
 can take the blue out of the sky ; when you can steal heat 
 from fire ; when you can strip splendor from the morning, 
 then, and not before, may you reclaim your separate drops 
 in me." " Yes, yes, my river," answers the Union, " you 
 speak for me ; I am no more a child, but a man ; no longer 
 a confederacy, but a nation. The States are the members ; 
 I am the body. I am no more New York, Virginia, Massa- 
 chusetts, Carolina ; I am the United States of America, one 
 and indivisible." " Amen," roar Vicksburg, and Gettysbui"g, 
 
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 and Port Eoyal. " Amen," thunders the Kearsarge, as she 
 sinks the Alabama. " Amen," sings Sherman, as he marches 
 to the sea. " Amen," says Sedgwick, as he sinks dead at 
 Spottsylvania. 
 
 But the victory was more than that. A great nation 
 may be a great curse to humanitj. An imperial flag 
 may be a black flag of injustice. It is not great power, 
 it is the great use of power that is admirable. The true 
 triumph of the war is not that the Union shall henceforth 
 be an undivided power merely, but that it shall be an 
 undivided power of justice and equality. Of the t\vo 
 forces that from the first have struggled for its control, 
 the evil principle, finding that, by all the laws of heaven 
 and of human welfare, it was failing, sought to ruin 
 what it could not rule. Baffled in its bloody effort, let 
 us now take care, with malice toward none, with charity 
 for all, that it be baffled for ever. But this can be done 
 only by ceaseless activity. Eternal vigilance is the price 
 of liberty, because its foe is as crafty as it is cruel. 
 Beaten in one form, it will try another. The magician 
 who was a tiger yesterday will be a fox to-day. Sedg- 
 wick died to preserve the integrity of the Union ; we live 
 that we may seciu-e its justice. From the three hun- 
 dred thousand who see not this peaceful autumn sun, from 
 field and river, from mount and sea, from the blood in 
 the streets of Baltimore, from the torture and despair of 
 Andersonville, fi'om Fort Wagner and Fort Pillow, from 
 all your heroic fields, men of the Sixth Corps, from the 
 Wilderness and Spottsylvania, and from your brothers who 
 are buried there, comes the glorious cry : " We conquered 
 under the flag of the Union, the flag that promised lib- 
 erty. We won our victory and died. See that you die 
 
 rather than surrender it." 
 
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 Officers and soldiers of the Sixth Corps, for the last 
 time you stand here together, and before parting, never 
 as a corps to meet again, your hands and hearts that, 
 with his, beat back the cruel flames of war — here 
 upon the spot he knew so well, in tender memory of him, 
 and in bond of faithful union among yourselves, raise this 
 statue to the brave and gentle Sedgwick. It is wrought 
 of cannon that, with his eye watching you and his heart 
 trusting you, you captured in the blazing fury of battle. 
 It is a monument of your valor as well as of his devotion. 
 His modesty would have refused it for himself, but his 
 affection would have accepted it from you. Here leave it, 
 under the sky and among the hills. Upon this soldier's 
 field it shall outwatch, at its silent post, the sentinels of 
 to-day, the sentinels of coming years. This noble pageant, 
 this living multitude, these spoken words, tliis roar of can- 
 non, these peals of echoing music, shall pass away ; but 
 thou, mute soldier, shalt remain ! Thy lips shall speak when , 
 we are gone. And to the young and docUe hearts that, 
 through long years hereafter, shall hither come to give 
 themselves to the service of the flag, say, changeless lips, 
 for us, say for America, say for mankind : " That flag is 
 the flag of liberty and justice, and therefore the flag of 
 peace ! " 
 
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 ptllterif f«^t0ri lof piaj0r-^wmrt ialm J^fidputcfe, 
 
 ( From ChxllwrCs Biographical Register. ) 
 
 Cadet at the U. S. Military Academy from July 1, 1833, 
 to July 1, 1837, when he was graduated and promoted 
 in the Army to 
 
 Second Lieut., 2d Artillery, July 1, 1837. 
 Served in the Florida war against the Seminole In- 
 dians, 1837-38, being engaged in the skirmish near Fort 
 Clinch, May 20, 1838 ; in the Cherokee Nation, 1838, while 
 emigi'ating the Indians to the West ; on Recruiting ser- 
 vice, 1838-9 ; on Northern Frontier during Canada Bor- 
 der Disturbances, at Buffalo, N. Y., 1839. — Fort Niagara, 
 
 (First Lieut., 2d Artillery, April 19, 1839.) 
 N. Y., 1839, and Buffalo, N. Y. 1839-41; in garrison 
 at Fort Monroe, Va., 1811-42 ; Fort Hamilton, N. Y. 
 1842-43 ; Fort Columbus, N. Y., 1843-45, and Fort Ad- 
 ams, R. I., 1845-46 : in the War with Mexico, being en- 
 gaged in the Siege of Vera Cruz, March 9-29, 1847; 
 Battle of Cerro Gordo, April 17-18, 1847; Skirmish of 
 Amazoque, May 14, 1847 ; Capture of San Antonio, Aug. 
 20, 1847; Battle of Cherubusco, Aug. 20, 1847; Battle 
 of Molino del Bey, Sep. 8, 1847 ; Battle of Chapultepec 
 
 (BvT. Capt., Aug. 20, 1847, for Gallant and Meritorious 
 
 Conduct in the Battles of Contreras and 
 
 Cherubusco, Mex.) 
 
 Sep. 12-13, 1847, and assault and capture of the City 
 
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 (BvT. Major, Sept. 13,. 1847, for Gallant and Meri- 
 torious Conduct in the Battle of Chapultepec, Mex.) 
 of Mexico, Sep. 13-14, 1847; in garrison at Ft. Colum- 
 bus, N. Y., 1848; Ft. Monroe, Va., 1848-49; Ft. Mc- 
 Henry, Md., 1849-51 ; Ft. Monroe, Va., 1851, 1851-52, 
 
 (Capt. 2d Artillery, Jan. 26, 1849.) 
 and Ft. McHenrj, Md., 1852-55, and on Frontier duty 
 at Ft. Leavenworth, Kan., 1855, quelling Kansas Border 
 
 (Major 1st Cavalry, March 8, 1855.) 
 Disturbances, 1855-56 ; Cheyenne Expedition, 1857, being 
 engaged in the action on Solomon's Fork of the Kan- 
 sas, July 29, 1857, and skirmish near Grand Sahne, 
 Aug. 6, 1857 ; Utah Expedition, 1857-58 ; Ft. Leaven- 
 worth, Kan., 1858; Ft. Eiley, Kan., 1858-59, 1859-60; 
 in command of Kiowa and Camanche Expedition, 1860 ; 
 and at Ft. Wise, Col., 1860-61. 
 
 Served during the Rebellion of the Seceding States, 
 1861-G4: In the defences of Washington, D. C, June 
 
 (Lieut. Colonel, 2d Cavalry, March 16, 1861.) 
 (Colonel 1st Cavalry, April 25, 1861 ; 4th Cavalry, 
 Aug. 3, 1861.) 
 to Aug. 3, 1861 ; as Acting Lispec tor-General of the 
 Department of Washington, Aug. 3-12, 1861 ; in com- 
 mand of brigade in the defences of Washington, D. C, 
 Aug. 12, 1861 to Feb. 20, 1862; m command of divi- 
 
 (Brig.-General, U. S. Volunteers, Aug. 31, 1861.) 
 sion guardmg the Potomac, about Poolsville, Md., Feb.- 
 March, 1862 ; in command of division (Army of the Po- 
 tomac) in the Vii-ginia Peninsular Campaign, March to 
 Aug, 1862, being engaged in the Siege of Yorkto^vn, 
 April 5 to May 4, 1862; Battle of Fair Oaks, May 31 
 -June 1, 1862 ; Action of Peach Orchard, June 29, 1862 j 
 
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 Battle of Savage Station, June 29, 1862 ; and Battle of 
 Glendale, June 30, 1862, wliere lie was wounded ; in the 
 Northern Virginia Campaign, on the Eetreat from Bull 
 
 (Majoe-General U. S. Volunteers, July, 4, 1862.) 
 Eun to Washington, D. C, Sep. 1-2, 1862 ; in the Mary- 
 laud Campaign (Army of the Potomac), Sep., 1862, being 
 engaged in the Battle of Autietam, Sep. 17, 1862, where 
 he was severely wounded ; on sick leave of absence, 
 disabled by wound, Sept. 18 to Dec. 22, 1862 ; in the 
 Rappahannock Campaign, in command of the 9th Corps, 
 Dec. 22, 1863, and of the 6th Corps, Feb. 5, 1863 (Army 
 of the Potomac), being engaged in command at the Storm- 
 ing of Marye Heights, May 3, 1863,— and Battle of Sa- 
 lem, May 3-4, 1863 ; in the Pennsylvania Campaign, 
 commanding 6tli Corps (Army of the Potomac), June- 
 July, 1863, being engaged (after a forced march) in the 
 Battle of Gettysburg, July 2-3, 1863, — and pursuit of the 
 enemy to Warrenton, Va., July, 1863 ; in the Rapidan 
 Campaign, Sep. -Dec, 1863, being in command of the 
 right wing (5th and 6tli Corps) of the Army of the Po- 
 tomac, in the Combat of Rappahannock Station, Nov. 7, 
 1863,— and Operations at Mine Run, Nov. 26-Dec. 3, 1863 ; 
 in the Richmond Campaign, in command of the 6th 
 Corps (Army of the Potomac), May 4-9, 1864, being en- 
 gaged in the Battle of the Wilderness, May 5-6, 1864, 
 and while making a personal reconnoissance, and direct- 
 ing the placing of some artillery for the Battle of 
 Spottsylvania, was, by a sharp-shooter, 
 
 Killed, May 9, 1864: Aged 50. 
 
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 The 1st, 2d, 3d, and 4:tli Corps were organized by direct 
 orders of the President of the United States, March 8th, 
 1862, from the Division organizations that, up to that 
 date, had constituted the Army of the Potomac; the 5th 
 and 6th Corps were organized, provisionally, by Major- 
 General McClellau, the commander of that army. May 
 18th, 1862. These troops were at that date encamped at 
 the White House, on the Pamunkey Eiver, Va. 
 
 Tlie 6th Corps was composed of the Divisions of Brig- 
 adier-Generals H. W. Slocum and WiUiam F. Smith, and 
 Brigadier-General WiUiam F. Franklin was assigned to 
 its command. 
 
 PENINSULAR CAMPAIGN — 1862. 
 
 June 28, 18<>2 — Action of Golding's Farm. 
 
 June 29, " — Savage's Station. 
 
 June 30, " —White Oak Bridge. 
 
 July 1, " —Malvern Hill. 
 
 July 2, " — Skirmish at Harrison's Landing. 
 
 MAEYLAND CAMPAIGN, 1862 
 
 Commanders of Division, 
 
 ' Darius N. Couch, 
 Henry W. Slocum, 
 William F. Smith. 
 
 Sept. 14, 1862. — Crampton's Gap, South Mountain. 
 Sept. 17, 1862.— Antietam. 
 
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 Nov. 14, 1862, — The First and Sixth Corps were united to 
 form the " Left Grand Division " of the Army of the Poto- 
 mac, and Major-General Franklin being assigned to the 
 command, that of the Sixth Corps devolved upon Major- 
 General W. F. Smith. 
 
 EAPPAHANNOCK CAMPAIGN, 1862-3. 
 
 Commanders of Division, 
 
 John Newton, 
 William H. Brooks, 
 Albion P. Howe. 
 
 Dec. 13, 1862. — Fredericksburg, Va. 
 
 Feb. 8, 1863. — Major-General John Sedgwick was assigned 
 to the command of the corps. 
 May 3, 1863. — Storming of Marye Heights. 
 May 3-4, 1863.— Battle of Salem. 
 
 PENNSYLVANIA CAMPAIGN, 1863. 
 Commanders of Division, 
 
 Horatio G. Wright, 
 John Newton, 
 Albion P. Howe. 
 
 June 9. — Combat of Beverly Ford. 
 July 2-3. — Gettysburg. 
 
 RAPIDAN CAMAPAIGN, 1863. 
 
 Nov. 7. — The Fifth and Sixth Corps were united to form 
 the " Eight Wing " of the Army of the Potomac, the com- 
 mand of which was conferred on Major-General Sedgwick, 
 and Brig.-General H. G. Wright was placed in command of 
 the corps. 
 , Nov. 7. — Combat of Rappahannock Station. 
 
 Nov. 26. — Operations about Mine Run, and Action of Lo- 
 cust Grove, to Dec. 8. 
 
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 RICHMOND CAMPAIGN,- 1864. 
 
 Division Commanders, 
 
 J. B. ElCKETTS, 
 
 H. G. WriCxHT, 
 G. W. Getty. 
 
 May 5-6. — Battles of the Wilderness. 
 May 9. — Major-General Sedgwick was killed, and Major- 
 General H. G. Wright assigned to command of the corps. 
 May 9-21. — Battles of Spottsylvania. 
 May 23-24.— Battles of the North Anna. 
 May 30. — Tolopotomy. 
 June 1-13.— Battles of Cold Harbor. 
 June 23-July 10. — Battles about Petersburg. 
 
 WASHINGTON CAMPAIGN, 1864. 
 
 r James B. Ricketts, 
 Division Commanders. -I Geo. W. Getty, 
 
 [ David A. Russell. 
 
 July 9. — Battle of Monoeacy (Ricketts' Division). 
 
 July 11. — Defence of Washington against Early. 
 
 July 12. — Action before Fort Stevens. 
 
 July 18. — Skirmish at Snicker's Gap, in pursuit. 
 
 SHENANDOAH CAMPAIGN, 1864, 
 
 f 
 
 I 
 
 Division Commanders. -< 
 
 { James B. Ricketts, 
 
 Geo. W. Getty, 
 
 David A. Russell (killed), 
 . Frank Wheaton. 
 
 Aug. 21. — Action of Charlestown, Va. 
 Sept. 19. — Battle of Opequan. 
 Sept. ,22.— Battle of Fisher's Hill. 
 Oct. 19.— Battle of Cedar Creek. 
 
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 EICHMOND CAMPAIGN, 1864-5. 
 
 Division Commandeers, 
 
 Geo. W. Getty, 
 Frank Wheaton, 
 Truman Seymoxjr. 
 
 December, 1864. — Siege of Petersburg. 
 
 March 25, 1865. — Capture of intrenclied picket line 
 near Fort Fisher. 
 
 April 2, 1865. — Assault of enemy's works. 
 
 April 6, 1865. — Battle of Sailor's Creek. 
 
 April 9, 1865. — Capitulation of Rebel " Army of Northern 
 Virginia." 
 
 April 23, 1865.— March to DanviUe, Va. 
 
 May 16, 1865. — March to Washington. 
 
 June 8. — Review of corps at Washington. 
 
 June 28. — Corps mustered out of service. 
 
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 Department of State, 
 Washington, Oct. 15, 1868. 
 Major-Geueral H. G. Weight, and others, 
 
 Army Building, New York Oity. 
 Gentlemen, — I deeply regret that my official cares here, seem to remler 
 it impossible for me to accept your kind iuvitation to the ceremonies to be 
 observed at West Point, on the 21st instant, in honor of the lamented 
 Major-General John Sedgwick. Cordially sympathizing with your own loyal 
 and patriotic feelings in regard to that interesting occasion, I have the honor 
 to remain. Gentlemen, with very great resi^ect, 
 
 Your obedient servant, 
 
 William H. Seward. 
 
 War Department, 
 Washinghton City, October K!, 1868. 
 Major-Gcnerals H. G. Weight, Geo. W. Getty, Frank Wheaton and 
 Truman Seymour, 
 
 Sedgwick Monument Committee, 
 
 New York Oity. 
 Gentlemen, — ^I have received your invitation to be present at West Point, 
 on the "2 1st instant, to mtness the ceremonies of deilication of the bronze 
 statue to be erected, by the Sixth Army Corps, to the memory of their late 
 commander, Major-General John Sedgwick. 
 
 It would afford me great pleasure to take part in such a tribute of respect 
 to the memory of that noble soldier, but my official duties will, I regret to 
 say, prevent my attendance on that occasion. 
 I am. Gentlemen, very respectfully, 
 
 Your obedient servant, 
 
 J. M. SCHOFIELD, 
 
 Secretary of War. 
 
 Department of the Interior, 
 
 Washington, D. C, Oetoljer U, 1868. 
 Gentlemen, — I am this morning in receipt of your courteous iuNitation to 
 attend the dedicatory ceremonies of the statue to be erected to the memory 
 of the late Major- General John Sedgwick. 
 
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 It would afford me much pleasure to be with you ou this occasion of trib- 
 ute to the honorable memory of a gallant soldier, and I regret that the 
 pressing nature of official duties, at this time, will preclude my attend- 
 ance, 
 
 I am , Gentlemen, very truly yours. 
 
 Sixth Coeps Sedgwick Monument Committee, 
 New York City. 
 
 O. H. Bkowning. 
 
 State of Ehode Island, 
 
 Executive Department, 
 
 Peoyidence, Oct. 31, 1868. 
 My deak General, — Thanks for your kind attention in sending me an in- 
 vitation to attend the ceremonies of dedication of the bronze statue in 
 memory of the gallant Sedgwick. Absence from home not only prevented 
 my acceptance of the invitation, but has delayed its acknowledgment. You 
 know how glad I would have been to have joined you in paying that tribute of 
 respect to the memory of our gallant comrade. 
 
 Truly your friend, 
 
 A. E. Burnside. 
 Genl. Frank Wheaton, U. S. A. 
 
 Pennsylvania Executive Chamber, 
 
 Haerisbueg, Pa., Oct. 17, 1868. 
 Major-Generals H. G. Wright, Geo. W. Getty, Frank Wheaton and 
 Truman Seymour, 
 
 Sbdh Corps Sedgwick Monument Committee. 
 Gentlemen, — Please accept my thanks for your kind invitation to be pres- 
 ent on the 2l8t inst., at the dedication of the bronze statue erected to the 
 memory of Major-General John Sedgwick, by the Sixth Army Corps. It 
 would afford me great satisfaction to accept the same, but an important pre- 
 vious engagement renders it impracticable. 
 
 I heartily commend the patriotic and praiseworthy spirit of the brave 
 soldiers who have paid a high and deserved tribute of respect, in the erection 
 of this statue to their gallant commander. 
 
 Very respectfully, your obedient servant, 
 
 Jno. W. Geary. 
 
 Norwich, Conn., October 17, 1868. 
 Gentlemen, — I accept, with much pleasure, your invitation to be present 
 at West Point, on the 21st instant, to witness the ceremonies connected vni\\ 
 
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 the dedication of the statue of the hxte Major-General Sedg-wick, to be erected 
 by the Sixth Army Corps. 
 
 I hived and respected that distinguished and gallant soldier while living, 
 and I cherish and honor his memory now that he is dead. Nothing, I am 
 sure, could be more grateful to him than this tribute of aifection and respect, 
 which his brave companions in arms, the gallant Sixth Corps, are about to 
 pay him— it is alike honorable to them and to him. 
 Witu j^reat resi^ect I am. Gentlemen, 
 
 Your most obedient servant, 
 
 L. F. S. Foster. 
 Major-Generals H. G. Wright, Geo. W. Getty, Frank WhEATON and Truman 
 Seymour. 
 
 Mayor's Office, 
 
 New York, October 17, 1868. 
 Mujor-General H. G. Wright, U. S. A., 
 
 Chairman, etc. 
 General, — I beg leave to express my sincere regret, that engagements al- 
 ready made will prevent my acceptance of your kind invitation to be present 
 at West Point on the 21st instant, and that I shall therefore l)e unable to 
 testify, by my presence, the deep veneration I feel for the memory of the late 
 General Sedgwick, in whose honor his comrades purpose on that day to 
 erect a monument. 
 
 I have the honor to be, General, 
 
 Your obedient servant, 
 
 John T. Hoffman. 
 
 TivoLi, Oct. 21, 1868. 
 Major-Generals Wright, Getty, Wheaton, and Seymour : 
 
 Generals, — Allow me — although your kind invitation for the 21st reached 
 me, through misdirection, this evening — to thank you for your remem- 
 brance, and express my regret that the delay prevented my witnessing the 
 ceremonies in dedication of a monument to a brave and large-hearted sol- 
 dier, who died as bravely as he had lived, for our common and dear 
 country. 
 
 Very respectfully, 
 
 Your obedient servant, 
 
 J. Watts de Peystee, 
 
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 Galena, III., Oct. 21, 18G8. 
 To General H. G. Wiught, 
 
 West Point. 
 Iiivitatiou to attend dedication of Sedgwick moniiment too late. I re- 
 gret not being able to join with the friends and companions of the 
 gallant Sedgwick in showing resiject to the memory of one so much be- 
 loved, and so honored for his patriotism and n^ble sacrifice in behalf of 
 the country. 
 
 U. S. Geant, 
 
 General U. S. A. 
 
 Headquakteks MrLiTABY Division of the Missouri, 
 St. Louis, Oct. 21, 1868. 
 General H. G. Wkight, U. S. Miglneers, 
 
 New York Oily. 
 Deak General, — I have this moment received your invitation to be 
 present at the ceremony of inauguration of the Sedgwick monument, this 
 day, at West Point. 
 
 Of course, this comes too late ; but I am none the less obliged to you 
 for inviting me to so interesting an occasion. Though absent in person, 
 I am present with you in thought, and am happy that Sedgwick's friends 
 have been so successful in rearing to his memory a monument so richly 
 merited. 
 
 Truly yiuir friend, 
 
 W. T. Sherman, 
 
 Lieutenant- General. 
 
 Louisville, Kt., Oct. 20, 1868. 
 Brevet Major-Geueral H. G. Weight, Brevet Major-General G. W. Getty 
 Brevet Major-General Frank Wheaton, Brevet Major-General Tru- 
 man Seymour, 
 
 Committee Sedgwick Monument Association, Army Building, 
 New York City. 
 Gentlemen, — I had the honor to receive yesterday your invitation to be 
 present at the ceremony of the dedication of the monument to be erected 
 by the Sixth Corps, at West Point, N. Y., to the memory of their beloved 
 commander, Major-General John Sedgwick. I regret exceedingly that 
 my public duties will not admit of my presence on the occasion of paying 
 such honors to one so deserving and worthy. 
 I am, Gentlemen, 
 
 Very respectfully, 
 
 Your obedient servant, 
 
 Geo. H. Thomas, 
 Major-General U. S. A. 
 
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 Washington, October 19, 1868. 
 
 Gentlemen, — I have the honor to ackuowledge the receipt of an in- 
 vitation from you to be present on the 21st instant at the dedication 
 of the statne erected at West Point, N. Y., to the memory of that 
 distinguished and beloved soldier, the late Major-General John Sedgwick. 
 
 Nothing could aiford me more gratification than to participate on 
 that occasion in honoring the memory of that illustrious soldier, whose 
 career sheds such lustre on our country and its arms ; but I am pre- 
 vented from taking part in the ceremonies of the day by the condition 
 of my health, which does not permit me to travel so great a distance 
 
 at this time. 
 
 I am. Sirs, 
 
 Most respectfully, 
 
 Your obedient servant, 
 
 WiNFLELD S. Hancock, 
 
 Major- General U. H. A. 
 
 To Major-General H. G. Weight, U. S. A. ; Major-General G. W. Getty, 
 
 U. S. A. ; Major-General Frank Wheaton, U. S. A. ; Major-General 
 
 Tkuman Seymour, U. S. A, 
 
 Washington, D. C, Oct. 17, 1868. 
 Gentlemen, — I regret exceedingly that absence on duty from this 
 city will prevent my being present at West Point on the 21st instant, 
 on the occasion of the dedication of the monument to the memory of 
 the late much-lamented Major-General John Sedgwick. 
 I have the honor to be. 
 
 Very respectfully, 
 
 Your obedient servant, 
 
 L. Thomas, 
 Adjatani- General. 
 To Major-General H. G. Weight, Major-General G. W. Getty, Major- 
 General F. Wheaton, Major-General T. Seymour, Committee. 
 
 Quaetebmaster-Genebal's Office, 
 
 Washington, D. C, Octdbei- 14, 1868. 
 Major-Generals H. G. Weight, Geo. W. Getty, Frank Wheaton, Tru- 
 man Seymour, 
 
 Committee of the Sixth Corps. 
 Gentlemen, — I have had the honor to receive j'our courteous in\nta- 
 tion to be present at the ceremonies of the dedication of the statue 
 
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 to the memoiy of the lamented Geuoral Sedgwick, about to be erected 
 at West Point. 
 
 I should take great pleasure in doing anj-thing in my power to 
 honor the memory of this gallant soldier and leader ; bat the prepara- 
 tion of the official annual report of this department requires my pres- 
 ence in Washington, and I shall not be able to be absent on the 21st. 
 I am glad that the monument is being erected at the national mili- 
 tary school, to whose training his life and services did so much honor. 
 I am, very respectfully. 
 
 Your obedient servant, 
 
 M. C. Meigs, 
 
 Quartermaster- General, 
 
 Bvt. Major-General. 
 
 Washington, October 22, 1868. 
 Major-Generals Weight, Getty, Wheaton, and Seymoue, 
 
 Committee Sedgwick Monument. 
 Gentlemen,— I have to acknowledge the receipt of your invitation to be 
 present at the dedication of the bronze statue erected to the memory of 
 the late Major-General Sedgwick at West Point, on the 21st instant, and 
 to express my regret that official duties at this place prevented my uniting 
 in that expression of admiration for his high qualities and distinguished 
 services, and of sincere regret for his loss. 
 
 Very resiiectfully. 
 
 Your ob't serv't, 
 
 A. A. HUMPHEEYS, 
 
 Major-General. 
 
 Peinceton, N. J., December 20, 1868. 
 Generals Weight, Getty, Wheaton, and Seymoue, 
 
 Committee 6th Corps Sedgwick Monument Association. 
 SiES,— I have great satisfaction in acknowledging the receipt of your 
 invitation to be present at the ceremonies of the dedication, etc., etc. 
 
 It would have been my duty and my pleasure to have joined in this 
 last tribute to one so brave, noble-hearted, and beloved as Sedgwick. 
 The invitation was, however, received too late for me to be at West 
 Point at the appointed time. With many thanks to you, gentlemen, 
 personally, for your kindness and consideration, 
 
 I am very truly, 
 
 D. N. Couch, 
 Major-General, late If. S. Vols. 
 
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 St. Paul, Minn., December 18, 1868. 
 To General H. G. Weight, 
 
 U. S. Army. 
 Genekai,, — I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your invi- 
 tation to be present at the dedication of the bronze statue at West 
 Point, which has been erected by the Sixth Army Coi-ps in memory of 
 their- distinguished commander, Major-General John Sedgwick, who was 
 killed in battle. 
 
 I should have been glad to participate in these ceremonies if I could, 
 for I hold the memoiy of his noble qualities as a man and a soldier as 
 warmly as if I had been one of his command. 
 
 Yours respectfully, 
 
 G. K. Warken 
 
 Headquaetees Artilleey School, U. S. A. 
 
 FoKT Monroe, Va., October 17, 1868. 
 Major-Generals Weight, Getty, Wheaton, and Seymour, 
 
 CommUlee. 
 Generals, — I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of yom- invi- 
 tation to attend the dedication, at West Point, of the bronze statue to 
 be erected by the late Sixth Army Corps to the memory of their late 
 commander, Major-Geueral John Sedgwick, on the 21st inst. 
 
 Under any circumstances I would be proud to render homage to the 
 gallantry and virtues of such an officer as was Major-General Sedgwick ; 
 but when I mourn his loss and love his memory also as that of a be- 
 loved comrade and cherished personal friend of more than thirty years 
 standing, I have a far higher motive in wishing to join with his late 
 command in the dedication of the tribute of respect which they are 
 now about to erect. 
 
 Unless prevented l)y unforeseen circumstiinces, I shall be present at 
 the ceremonies of the 21st inst. 
 
 I am, Generals, very respectfully. 
 
 Your ob't serv't, 
 
 Wn.T.TAM F. Barry, 
 Col 2d AnUlei-y, 
 Brevet Major- Gen'l, U. S. A. 
 
 Albany, Oct. 17, 18G8. 
 Gentlemen, — I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your 
 invitation to attend the ceremonies at West Point, on the 21st inst, 
 
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 appointed for the dedication of a monuniout to the memory of the late 
 Major-General John Sedgwick. 
 
 Engagements made some time ago, and which, I regret to say, are 
 imperative, render it impossible for me to be present on an occasion 
 so full of interest to one who served with tho distinguished soldier whose 
 career you commemorate. In the Army of the Potomac his name was 
 always the theme of affection and praise. To him was given the rare 
 felicity of honors without envy— of fame without detraction — and even 
 the enemy, under whose fire he fell, united in the comntendation be- 
 stowed by his comrades upon the blameless life and heroic death of 
 
 Sedgwick. 
 
 I am. Gentlemen, 
 
 With high regard, 
 
 Very respectfully, 
 
 D. E. Sickles, 
 
 Brevet Major-General, U. S. A. 
 
 To Brevet Major-General H. G. Wright, U. S. A., and Generals Getty, 
 
 Wheaton, and Seymouk, Committee, etc., etc., Army Building, New 
 
 York City. 
 
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 [From the Neio York Herald, October 22, 1868.] 
 
 Agreeably to public announcement, the monument to the memory of 
 the late Major-General John Sedgwick, United States Volunteers, was 
 unveiled and solemnly inaugurated yesterday afternoon, at the United 
 States Military Academy at West Point. 
 
 At three o'clock p.m., amid a heavy and continuous rain, which thor- 
 oughly saturated the walks and grass of the parade, and the drops faU- 
 iug incessantly from the trees, the military portion of the procession 
 formed, which included a battery of light artillery (of six guns), the 
 bands of West Point, of Governor's Island, and of the First United 
 States Artillery, combined as one grand musical company of seventy in- 
 striiments, which preceded the comisanies of cadets, nearly three hun- 
 dred of whom were under arms, commanded by Brevet Brigadier-General 
 Pitcher. The entire procession, which included many distiugiiished gen- 
 tlemen, some of whose names are historical, being placed in charge of 
 Major-General Wright, chairman of the committee of four generals, all of 
 whom had served honorably in the Sixth Corps, arid intrusted by a 
 formal resolution of Congress with the execution of the splendid statue, 
 which will stand for all the future a mejnorial of one of the most be- 
 loved and heroic of the soldiers of the war for the preservation of the 
 Union. 
 
 At fifteen minutes past three the procession, which had formed on the 
 south-eastern side of the plain, received the signal to march, and imme- 
 diately the soldiery proceeded down the westerly avenue, towards the 
 platform, armed with umbrellas, where the distinguished guests were 
 seated, together with the orator of the day and the chaplain of the 
 post. 
 
 Within a few feet was the monument, in the extreme .north-westerly 
 corner of the parade, opposite the residence of Colonel Black, com- 
 mandant of the corps of cadets, and about two hundred feet from the 
 shaft erected to the memory of Major-General Brown, and which, until 
 the prayer prepared for the occasion was read by the chaplain, was 
 concealed by the national flag, that fell in graceful folds around it. 
 
 At the close of the invocation, Major-General Ricketts, who, during the 
 lifetime of Sedgwick had commanded the Third Division of the Sixth 
 
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 Army Coiids of Volunteers, advanced to the pediment of the monu- 
 ment, and amid the profound silence of the spectators, who stood with 
 heads uncovered, the cadets having previously formed in close column, 
 dotibling on their centre, presented arms, the battery at the same time 
 firing thirteen guns, unveiled tiie statue. 
 
 The statue is a splendid work of art. It perfectly represents the 
 man. It is of life size and is placed on a pediment which, with the 
 foundation, raises the whole memorial to an altitude of about fifteen feet. 
 The figure is happily conceived. The zight leg is advanced, while the 
 point of the sheathed sword rests on the ground. The hilt is covered 
 with his right gauntleted hand, the left resting upon it, and his fatigue 
 cap, as if just removed from the head to give the wide, open eyes a 
 clearer view, is held carelessly between the sword and the body. The 
 sash is tied carelessly about the waist, the tassels hanging a little behind 
 the middle of the side. The head is thrown slightly forward, as if the 
 eyes were scrutinizing some object in the near distance, while the mouth 
 wears a sad yet resolute smUe. 
 
 He is supposed to be looking at the rapidly rising waters of the Chick- 
 ahominy, while standing at the head of his corps on the hither side, 
 while another corps of the Army of the Potomac is being "annihilated" 
 by the rebel army under Lee. He is ordered to advance to their relief, 
 if possible, and he accomplishes the perilous feat. The pose of the life- 
 like figure, as it is supposed to be standing on the raging and rolling 
 river, is thus eloquently alluded to by Mr. Curtis, the orator of the oc- 
 casion : — 
 
 "See how the story opened, for it ended as it began. After the battle 
 of Williamsburg the first considerable action was that of Fair Oaks and 
 Seven Pines. The mass of the Union army lay upon the eastern side of 
 the Chickahomiuy, and two coi-jjs, counting about 30,000 men, were 
 upon the other shore. A furious storm in the night promised to swell 
 the river to an impassable flood, and in the morning the whole rebel 
 force bore down upon the Union lines, to annihilate one wing of the 
 army in full sound and sight of their brothers, hopelessly separated from 
 them. All the morning the battle hotly raged ; the Union troops were 
 slowly driven back. By noon the river began to rise. General Sumner, 
 who was upon the eastern shore, and in whose corps General Sedgwick 
 commanded a division, was ordered to cross, and he sent word to Sedg- 
 wick, the "always ready, "as General Scott used to call him, to advance; 
 but as Sedgwick came towards the bridge he saw that the river had be- 
 come a sea, sweeping fiercely by. Far out in the midst of the waves a 
 plank, apparently anchored, showed the channel ; beyond the further 
 
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 end of the plank the waters stretched for a quarter of a mile. It was a 
 perilous task to feel his way through the water with a heavy battery of 
 twenty-four giins, and then to tnist a frail, trembling plank for the pas- 
 sage of the channel. But the smoke and roar of the battle beyond the 
 flood come nearer and nearer, and he knew that his brethren were sorely 
 jn-essed. After a calm, thoiightful survey, he gave the word "forward." 
 Into the waters moved the steady line ; the gun-carriages sunk almost to 
 the guns ; floundering, staggering, but painfully drasrged on soldiers and 
 batteries across the quivering bridge, which was whirled away as they 
 left it. Toiling again throngh the swift water and the mire, and an hour 
 and a half before sunset, Sedgwick came upon the field. The rebels, 
 flushed with success, were driving their victorious columns as a M'edge 
 between the centre and the right of our wavering forces, but, like his 
 Ironside ancestor, Sedgwick swiftly advanced, formed his line, opened 
 his batteries and shattered the wedge. The wasted foe recoiled before 
 his tremendoiis fire, his whole division in blazing line of battle moved 
 steadily on, seized the stricken enemj', hurled him into the woods, and 
 the battle of Fair Oaks was won. " 
 
 It is enoiigh to say of the conception of the figure and face of this 
 image of the hero that it is entirely worthy of the artist. It is a monu- 
 ment of genius. 
 
 . There is but one fault, and that is a serious one. The place selected for 
 the statue is too retired, and unless pointed out, not one visitor in a hun- 
 dred to the National Academy will ever notice it. 
 The inscription on its pediment is as follows : 
 Major General 
 JOHN SEDGWICK, 
 United States Volunteers, 
 Born Sept. 13, 1813, 
 Killed in battle, at Spottsylvania, Va., 
 
 May 9, 1864. 
 
 While in command of the Sixth Corps, 
 
 Army of the Potomac. 
 
 The Sixth Army Corps, 
 
 In loving admiration of its Commander, 
 
 Dedicates this Statue 
 
 to his 
 
 Memory. 
 
 The above is on a metal plate inserted in the south panel, while on 
 
 the easterly side the insignia of the corps, the Maltese cross, is placed, 
 
 sunouuded by a wreath in metal (laurel) leaves. On the westerly side 
 
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 is the shield of the republic, siirmouuted by an eagle, also surrounded 
 by a wreath. The northerly panel is without inscription or insignia. 
 The cross of the corps is also placed on the left breast of the statue. 
 
 The silence which immediately preceded the unveiling was followed 
 by rounds of applause, all present being evidently highly isleased with 
 the memorial. 
 
 The stripping was followed by music from the united bands, which 
 a few moments before had rendered in magnificent style the Stuhat Mater. 
 
 The orator then advanced to the front of the stand, while an offi- 
 cer of the army held an umbrella over his head and manuscript, to 
 shield him and it from the rain that fell during the greater part of the 
 delivery of his sjilendid eulogium in memory of the dead. 
 
 Mr. Curtis commenced by referring to the "historic hills" which sur- 
 rounded the assemblage, and of the historic river flowing at their feet, 
 and of the ground upon which Washington trod, and of the reminiscences 
 of the revolution that had made the National School a school for heroes, 
 and then, alluding incidentally to the beautiful statue, branched off into a 
 review of the work of the Puritans, and showed that in every field, al- 
 though sneered at for their sterling pietj' by the Cavaliers, they won the 
 victory of freedom and of progress both for the Old World and for this. 
 He then referred to an ancestor of the dead hero, Major-General Eobert 
 Sedgwick, a Puritan, who fought sternly and unflinchingly imder the 
 great Cromwell, and was intrusted by that leader with an important mis- 
 sion to an island in the West Indies, and who, Charles the Second retiu'n- 
 iug to the English throne, rather than bow the knee to royalty, sailed for 
 Connecticut, and there founded the Sedgwick family, a representative of 
 which, grandfather to Major-General John Sedgwick, fought through the 
 Revoh;tionary war, and was subsequently made a major-general of militia 
 by the State of Connecticut. 
 
 • The orator then in eloquent terms reviewed the career of the deceased 
 during the rebellion and anterior thereto, closing with a magnificent per- 
 oration. 
 
 In consequence of the rain-storm, but few comparatively were present. 
 Among those on the platform were noticed Mr. C. H. Tompkins, Senator 
 Foster, of Connecticut ; Governor Ward, of New Jersey ; Major-Generals 
 McClellan, Meade, Heintzelman, Wright, Wheaton, Seymour, Hamlin, 
 Franklin, Towers, Doubleday and Shaler ; Colonels A. W. Adams, S. J. 
 Smith, D. J. Nevins, Samuel Truesdale, O. Milne ; Majors H. C. Ellis, T 
 Norton Bundj', and Lieutenant W. E. Heddon and others, of the Sixth 
 Corps. Colonels H. C. Pratt and F. F. Flint, United States Army ; Major 
 T. M. FarreU, United States Army ; Dr. Paige, United States Army ; 
 
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 Lieutenant Algiers, United States Army, and Dr. Simmons, of the British 
 Army. The only sister, Mrs. Welsh, and a cousin of the deceased were 
 also present. 
 
 At the close of the address, " Moses in Egypt," was played by the 
 bauds, after which the assemblage was dismissed with the Benediction. 
 
 The cadets on the plain then executed the manual of arms in splendid 
 style, and upon leaving the parade the pleased company retired to the 
 river to seek passage homeward. 
 
 [From the New York Sun, October 22, 1868.] • 
 
 The monument erected to the memory of Major-Gen. John Sedgwick, 
 that noble soldier who fell in battle at Spottsylviiuia, Va., on May 9, 
 1864, was formally dedicated yesterday afternoon at the Military Ac- 
 ademy of West Point, in the presence of a large number of citizens and 
 many distinguished officers and soldiers of the army. 
 
 Especially was the famous old Sixth Army Corps strongly represented at 
 these last ceremonies of love and devotion to their brave and skilful leader, 
 who had often nerved them to prodigious efforts in the field by his own 
 fearless and soldierly example. 
 
 The monument is their tribute to the memory of n loved commander. 
 Before the corps disbanded at the close of the war, it subscribed -men 
 and officers alike— a sum sufficient to erect a statue of their Gen- 
 eral, and a committee, consisting of Major-Gens. Wright. Getty. 
 Wheaton and Seymour, have had the matter in charge. 
 
 The arrangements having been completed, the dedicatory ceremonies 
 took place yesterday at West Point, as follows : 
 
 At 3^ o'clock a procession was formed opposite the west tower of the 
 Cadet Barracks, and moved to the site of the monument at the northern 
 end of the parade ground, in the following order : 
 
 Battery of light artillei-y. 
 
 Music — consisting of Military Academy band, Governor's Island band. 
 First U. S. Artillery band. 
 
 Battalion of cadets. 
 
 Family and relatives of the late Major-Gen. John Sedgwick. 
 
 Oi-ator, Moimment, ' Committee, Chaplain, and Mr. Launt Thompson 
 artist. 
 
 Members of the Sixth Army Corps. 
 
 Officers and soldiers of the volunteer and regular forces. 
 
 Officers of the Navy and Maiine Corps. 
 
 Officers and Professors of the Militarj' Academy. 
 
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 Citizens desirous of participating in the ceremony. 
 
 The whole under command of Brevet Major-Gen. H. G. Wright, 
 U. S. A. 
 
 Among the officers present were Major-Gens. Meade, McClellan, 
 Doubleday, Heintzehiian, Frankhn, Towers ; Col. Pratt, U. S. A. ; Sur- 
 geon Moore, U. S. A. ; Surgeon Paige, U. S. A. ; Dr. Simmons, of the 
 British army ; Col. F. F. Flint, Brig-Gen. Burns, Major Bundy, Lieut. 
 Ilgers. Among the Sixth Corps officers were Major-Gens. Wright, 
 Seymour, Eicketts, Wheaton, Shaler ; Brig-Gens. HamLlin Warner, Hyde, 
 Tompkins, Davis ; Cols. Oaker, Adams, Smith, Walker, Nevins, Trues- 
 dale, Milne ; Majors Norton, Ellis, and many others. 
 
 On the left of the monument was a large stand draped with Amer- 
 ican flags, on which the orator, committee, and invited guests were 
 seated. In front of the stand the cadets were formed in close column, 
 doubled on the centre, at parade rest ; the artillery in the rear, and the 
 band on the left. On the right were seats for the audience, which 
 numbered several hundred. 
 
 The exercises were opened with a prayer from the Chaplain, followed by 
 music from the band, which performed Stahat Mater, The three bands 
 had been consolidated, numbering in all about seventy instruments, 
 and they executed the piece in a most exquisite manner. Immediately 
 after, Major-General Ricketts advanced to the monument and pulled 
 down the flag which enveloped the statue, unveiling it to the public 
 gaze, amid the plaudits of the spectators, the roll of drums, the salute of 
 the cadets, and the firing of thirteen guns. 
 
 Its magnificent appearance, as it stood ottt in bold rehef for the first 
 time against the sky, ehcited the warmest expression of admiration 
 from the entire assemblage. 
 
 As a work of art, we venture to say that it has no superior in the country. 
 Of hfe size, in full military dress, standing in a commanding attitude, 
 with life-hke expression of countenance, the statue rises the very ideal of 
 a hero. Its fidelity to nature is remarkable, and its design admirable. 
 The pedestal is of stone, and bears upon its front face the following in- 
 scription : 
 
 Major-Geueral JOHN SEDGWICK, 
 
 U. S. Volunteers, Colonel Fourth Cavalry, U. S. A. 
 
 Born September 13, 1814. 
 
 Killed in battle at Spottsylvauia, Va., 
 
 May 9, 1864, 
 
 \\Ttiilo in command of the Sixth Corps, Army of the Potomac^ 
 
 The Sixth Corps, in loving admiration of its Commander, dedicates this 
 
 statue to his memory. 
 
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 On the east face is the corps badge, and on the west the U. S. coat 
 of arms. The whole monument is fourteen feet high, and cost $13,000. 
 Artist, Launt Thompson. The metal was furnished by Congress from 
 captured cannon. 
 
 George W. Curtis then delivered the oration, which was mainlj' de- 
 voted to the services of the General, and the standing of West Point 
 in the Eepublic. It was a beautiful production, well worthy of the 
 distinguished orator. 
 
 The exercises closed with the performiiuce of 3Ioses in Egypt by the 
 baud, and a dress parade by the cadets. 
 
 iFrom the New York Times, October 22, 18G8.] 
 The bronze monument erected by the old Sixth Army Corps in mem- 
 ory of their well-beloved commander, Major-General John Sedgwick, 
 was to-day dedicated and unveiled ■with approijriate ceremonies. The 
 day proved an unfavorable one, however, as the sky was overcast, and 
 a drizzhng rain prevailed throughoxit the entire proceedings. This fact 
 rt)bbed them of considerable splendor, but they were thereby rendered 
 doubly impressive and solemn. The leaden clouds which slowly drifted 
 on the mountains at times concealed them from our view, and the 
 landscape wore a mournful and saddened aspect, despite the varied 
 autumnal foliage to be seen on every side, which would in a clearer 
 atmosphere have lent an air of gorgeousness to the interesting scene 
 transpiring on the parade ground of the West Point Academy. The 
 Hudson wore a dull look, much at variance with its appearance on 
 sunny days in this sheltered nook; and as the eye of the spectator 
 wandered up and down its course, he failed to detect th,e beaiities so 
 often enjoyed and described. Despite these disappointments, the visitor 
 found West Point as much an object of interest as ever, and those 
 who braved the threatening storm and prevaihng showers, were well 
 rewarded by the ceremonies of the day, and the eloquent oration pre- 
 pared for the occasion by Hon. Geo. Wm. Curtis. 
 
 The monument, of which I sent you a brief descrij^tion yesterday, 
 stood all morning draped with a garrison flag, the folds of which, as 
 they became saturated by the rain, gave faint outUnes of the form of 
 the lamented Sedgwick, as it had been fashioned by the gifted hand 
 of the artist, and it was the centre of attraction to all fresh comers, 
 who naturally sauntered thither while awaiting the hour for the pro- 
 ceedings to commence. The steamer Sylvan Shore, which had been 
 chartered l)y the Committee of Arrangements, arrived from New York 
 at 2:30 p. m., having on board a large party of ladies and gentlemen in- 
 
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 vited to attend the dedication, among them being several leading Generals 
 and other officers. The arrival of the steamer seemed to be the signal 
 for commencing the proceedings, for as the chapel tower clock indicated 
 the hour of three, the guard bugle sounded the assembly for the cadets 
 to fall in under arms, and a stir was at the same time observable among 
 the artillerymen, who had for some time been standing in battery position 
 on the main drill ground. The mihtary visitors and former comrades of 
 the deceased General, also made rapid rendezvous in the roadway in front 
 of the cadet barracks, where they were speedily assigned positions in the 
 order of procession by the Committee. Standing in the pathway, I had 
 an excellent opportunity to see those distinguished officers who had come 
 np to participate in the dedication ceremonies. Gen. George B. McClellan 
 first attracted my notice as he stood aside, dressed in plain clothes, and 
 conversing with such of his army friends happening to recognize him. 
 The General appeared a trifle care-worn, and has not that look of 
 florid health that so distinguished him when in active service. Major- 
 General S. P. Heintzelman, with his familiar iron-gray beard, stood 
 near his old chieftain, as did also Major-Generals Cullum, FrankUn, 
 Newton, and liicketts, nearly all in the uniform of their brevet rank 
 as Major-Generals. Besides these officers, I noticed Major-General Abner 
 Doubleday, Major-Geueral Henry E. Davis (formerly of the cavalry), 
 Major-General H. G. Wright, the last commander of the Sixth Army 
 Corps ; Major-General Frank Wheaton, of the First or Red Cross 
 Division ; Major-General Truman Seymour, and Major-General George 
 W. Getty, of the Second and Third Divisions of the old Sixth Corps, 
 these last-named gentlemen being the Monument Committee. The old 
 Sixth Corps was well rejireseuted by a large number of the officers in 
 that command. Among them were Major-General Alexander Shaler, now 
 of the National Guard, and who once commanded a brigade in the 
 Second Division of the Sixth Corps ; Major-General Joseph Hamblin, 
 who succeeded him ; Brigadier-General G. H. Tompkins, who com- 
 manded the artillery under General Sedgwick ; Colonel A. J.- Smith, of 
 the One Hundred and Twenty-second New York Volunteers, and a 
 member of General Sedgwick's staff; Major G. W. Adams, Major H. 
 C. Elhs, of the Sixty-fifth N. Y. V. ; Colonel D. J. Nevins, of the Sixty- 
 second, N. Y. V. ; Colonel Samuel Truesdale, of the Sixty-fifth, N. Y. 
 v.; Colonel D. Miln, Major T. Norton, Major Bundy, Lieutenant W. 
 R. Hedden, and a great many others whose names I omit. Brigacher- 
 General Pitcher, Superintendent of the Academy, Major-General W. W. 
 Burns, and Colonel Moore, U. S. A., were also on the ground, as well 
 as Surgeon Simmons, of the British Army. The relatives of General 
 
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 Sedgwick were represented by his only surviving sister, Mrs. Welch, 
 and Messrs. Henry and Charles Sedg\\'ick, cousins to the deceased. 
 Gov. Marcus Ward, of New Jersey, was also present. 
 
 Positions in the line had been reserved for the President of the United 
 States, the heads of the Executive Departments, and General Grant, but 
 they did not come, as it was feared they would not. To the inspiring 
 strains of martial music, as performed by the united strength of the 
 Mihtary Academy, First Artillery, and Governor's Island bands, the pro- 
 cession moved slowly down the main avenue to the site where the 
 monument had been erected in the north-western corner of the parade, 
 on reaching which the artillery moved round in rear of the statue, and 
 then debouched on to the plain, quickly unlimbering into position pre- 
 paratory to firing the required salute. The battalion of cadets pressed 
 through the crowd of visitors, and halted directly in fi-ont of the stand 
 erected on the left of the statue for the accommodation of the orator and 
 distinguished persons present. Besides the members of the Old Sixth 
 Corps and the other army officers present, there had gathered together 
 nearly twelve hundred ladies and gentlemen from the neighboring towns 
 and villages, who, in consequence of the steady rain, were fein to shelter 
 themselves under the trees or their iimbrellas. 
 
 As soon as the necessary preliminaries were over, an order was given 
 to withdraw the cordon of sentinels round the reserved groixnd, it having 
 become evident that the rain was the only check required for the gather- 
 ing. The chaplain of the post, llev. Dr. French, then delivered an im- 
 pressive and appropriate prayer, after which the colossal band performed 
 Rossini's " Stabat Mater," at the conclusion of which Major-General 
 Ricketts, who commanded the Third Division of the Sixth Coips under 
 General Sedgwick, apjiroached the monument and unveiled the statue. As 
 the well-known features of their old commander were thus so forcibly and 
 faithfully j^resented to the comrades in arms of the deceased hero, a mur- 
 mur of applause was heard amid the pattering rain drops and falling 
 leaves, thereby testifying to the skill and genius of the artist. While the 
 assemblage stood contemplating the statue, wearing as it did a golden 
 hue, as it had come fresh from the artist's hands, a salvo of thirteen guns 
 from the field battery broke on their ears, and awakened the inniimerablc 
 echoes of the surrounding hills. As these slowly died away, the orator 
 of the day, Hon. George W. Curtis, of New York, advanced to the foot 
 of the i)latform, and delivered his oration, and the eftbrt proved one of his 
 most el()(]uent eftbrts. He gave a vigorous sketch of the struggle between 
 those who declare that some men have no rights and those who hold the 
 truth to be self-evident that all men are created equal, and in rehearsing 
 
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 the life of General Sedgwick, said thai ho had come from Puritan stock, 
 his great-grandfather being Major-General Robert Sedgwick, of Crom- 
 well's army. The commander of the Sixth Corps had always dreamed of 
 a soldier's life, while yet a boy in his native town of Cornwall, in the 
 Housatonic Valley. He gave an extended review of the military 
 career of General Sedgwick after leaving West Point in 1837, in 
 which he introduced many characteristic and interesting anecdotes of 
 the deceased, and also presented an impassioned resume of the great events 
 of the past seven years, and their influence upon the future of the nation, 
 and claimed that the question of State sovereignty had been long buried, 
 and the per^jetuity of the Union forever assured. 
 
 The bands then performed Rossini's "Moses in Egj'jDt " in an effective 
 and solemn manner, and the spectators were dismissed by the Benedic- 
 tion. The cadet battalion were at the same time put in motion and 
 marched to the centre of the parade ground, where the usual ceremonies 
 of evening parade were gone through. Darkness then quickened the steps 
 of the visitors toward the wharf, where they embarked for their homes 
 by the steamers "Sylvan Shore" and "Mary Powell." As I write, the 
 grounds are quite deserted, and we have again resumed the hum-drum 
 routine of academic life. The cheerful lights gleaming from cottage and 
 barrack only make the surrounding gloom the more mournful, and as the 
 statue of Sedwick braves the pitiless storm, the mind wanders away to 
 the modest grave of the departed hero in Cornwall Hollow, where, in boy- 
 hood days, he had lingered, di'eaming of the future which was to give 
 him glory and renown. 
 
 IFrom the Neio York Tribune, October 22, 1868.] 
 Mr. Launt Thompson's statue of Major-Gen. John Sedgwick, the lament- 
 ed commander of the Sixth Cordis of the Army of the Potomac, was 
 yesterday formally dedicated at West Point with appropriate military cere- 
 monies. The statue is of bronze, and represents the general in undress 
 uniform in one of his characteristic attitudes, his hands folded on his 
 sword-hilt, and his body bent sUghtly forward, while his countenance is 
 indicative of thoiight. There was but one opinion expressed by the nu- 
 merous officers of the Sixth Corps who were present, and who had fought 
 with the General up to the day of his death — that the likeness was excel- 
 lent, and that Mr. Thompson had been wonderfully successful in his 
 work. The j)edestal, a handsome granite block, bears the following in- 
 scription : 
 
 Major-General John Sedgwick, U. S. Volunteers, Col. 4th Cavalry, U. 
 S. Army. Born Sept. 13, 1813. Killed in Battle at Spottsylvania, Va., 
 
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 May 9, 1864, while in command of the Sixth Corps, Army of the Potomac. 
 The Sixth Army Coiiis, iu loving achiiiratiou of its Commander, dedi- 
 cates this statue to his memory. 
 
 Yesterday was cold, rainy, and thoroughly disagi-eeable, and sufficient 
 notice of the dedication had not been given in time to the widely scatter- 
 ed officers of the Sixth Corjjs; yet notwithstanding these mishaps about 
 50 of the officers of the Sixth Corps were present. Among the distin- 
 guished army officers upon the platform were Gens. H. G. Wiight, Tni- 
 man Sej^mour, Frank Wheaton, Kicketts, Geo. B. McClellan, Newton, 
 Franklin, Tompkins, Nevins, Shaler, Hyde, Warner, Doul)leday, Heintzel- 
 man, Hamblin. 
 
 The niilitiiry display, parade of the cadets, evolutions of the cavalry, 
 and firing of the salutes were conducted with that faultless precision of 
 which West Pointers are so justly jiroud. The music, furnished by four 
 military bands, was very fine. Though Mr. Curtis read his oration under 
 the shelter of an umbrella, his eloquence chd not fail of its wonted effect 
 on his audience. 
 
 [From the Anni/ and jS'<tvy Journal, Od. 24, 1868.] 
 Another memorial statue has been dedicated at West Point, and we 
 surrender a large portion of our space this week to a rc^i)ort of the elo- 
 quent M'ords in which the orator of the day did homage to the memory 
 of those in whose honor it has risen — the true-hearted John Sedgwick 
 and his brave men of the Sixth Corps. It is a statue of Sedgwick, but it 
 is a memorial, not of him alone, but of that ctu-ps with which his 
 memory is so intimately associated, and whose affection offers this tribute 
 to the heroic and the homely virtues of their brave, great-hearted "Uncle 
 John." No soldier of our army was more loved and t)'usted by his 
 comi-ades ; none better deserved such love and confidence. This statue 
 is the fitting tribute of a noble corps to a noble commander. As Mr. 
 Curtis so aptly says to the men of the Sixth Corps : "It is a monument 
 of your valor as well as of his devotion. His modesty would have re- 
 fused it for himself, but his affection would have accepted it from 
 you." 
 
 We leave Mr. Curtis to tell the story of the Sixth Corps, and their 
 honored leader. His oration will be read, not by this corps alone, but 
 by all to whom the memoiy of soldierly achievements and soldierly 
 virtues is dear. We print it in full, for it would be hard to deter- 
 mine what portion coiild be spared. It is unfortunate that an unpro- 
 pitious day prevented so many from listening to it. As it was, many 
 of the well-remembered faces of the Army of the Potomac were seen 
 
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 gathered about the statiie of John Sedgwick as General Ricketts 
 stripped away the flag that covered it, and unveiled it to the sky. 
 McClellau, Wright, Franklin, Truman Seymour, Wheaton, Newton, 
 Heintzelman, Doiableday. CuUum, Wainwright, Tompkins, Clark, Nevins, 
 Shaler, Hyde, Davis, Hamblin. and others. Several of the relatives of 
 the General were also present, and, in spite of the rain, (|uite a number 
 of ladies. 
 
 The military display consisted of a dress parade of the cadets, firing of 
 salutes, and music from a consolidated band formed of the West 
 Point band, the Governor's Island band, and a regimental band. The 
 statue, by Mr. Launt Thompson, is of bronze, cast from cannon captured 
 by the Sixth Corps, under Sedgwack's lead. It represents the General 
 in undress uniform, standing with uncovered head, his cap in his two 
 hands, folded together across the hilt of his sword, upon which he 
 l^artially leans as he bends forward in a chai'acteristic attitude. The 
 figure and attitude are unmistakable ; the face, somewhat disappointing 
 at first, grows upon one as it is lingered upon, and the likeness becomes 
 more and more apparent. The statue is erected at the north-west cor- 
 ner of the parade-ground, nearly on a line with the front of the hotel. 
 Its position is well chosen, and we hope to see other statues to our 
 dead heroes occupying corresponding positions on the parade-ground. 
 They will be mute, and yet eloquent witnesses to the young cn,dets of 
 the virtues and the patriotism which it should be their highest am- 
 bition to emulate. 
 
 IFrom the New York World, October 22, 1868.] 
 The inauguration of the bronze statue of the brave and lamented Sedg- 
 wick, at West Point to-day, took place in the midst of a cold and gloomy 
 shower, which was well in keeping with the sad recollections the ceremony 
 invoked. All the hanging woods, touched with the fiery splendors of 
 autumn, were heavy and dripping with the ceaseless showers. The river 
 that flowed beneath us mirrored the dixll skies, and all the hill-tojjs around 
 were crested with great flakes of cloud. 
 
 At the northern end of the parade, in an acute angle formed by the 
 curvature of the roadway above the river, stands the statue of the noble 
 commander of the Sixth Corps— a command with which his name will 
 ever be gloriously associated. The total height of the pedestal and statue 
 is eleven feet. The pedestal measures six feet, and stands upon a little 
 elevation above the level of the parade, neatly sodded round. It is of gray 
 granite, of the plainest character, with a simple base and cornice. Plates 
 
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 of cast bronze are set into the sides aud front of the stone. The front 
 bears the following inscription : 
 
 Major-General 
 
 John Sedgwick, 
 
 United States Volunteers, 
 
 Colonel Fourth Cavalry, U. S. A. 
 
 Born September 13, 1814, 
 
 Killed in battle at Spottsj'lvania, Va., 
 
 May 9, 1864, 
 While commanding the Sixth Corps, 
 Army of the Potomac. 
 
 THE SIXTH ARMY CORPS, 
 
 In loving admiration of its Commander, 
 
 Dedicates this statue 
 
 to his memory. 
 
 On the right side of the pedestal is a plate on which is a largo bas-relief 
 of the Sixth Corps badge, surrounded by a wreath of oak leaves ; on the 
 left is the escutcheon of the United States, with a similar wreath. 
 
 The statue of General Sedgwick is cast of bronze cannon, captured in 
 the late war, and presented for the purpose by Congress. The model was 
 executed by Mr. Launt Thompson, and the casting is a siiccessful render- 
 ing of the original. It is of life size, and represents the General exactly 
 as he might have appeared on any day during his active service in the 
 field. He wears a plain frock-coat, the Sixth Corps badge upon his left 
 breast. His hands are clasped in front, and hold his cap and sword. 
 The likeness is pronounced excellent by all who were acquainted with 
 the late General ; and some of the officers who were with him in his last 
 moments, and took part in the ceremonies of yesterdaj', pointed out, 
 with tears in their eyes, the spot on the left cheek where the fatal bullet 
 struck their beloved commander. At jiresent the statue is of a beautiful 
 golden hue, and stands out very boldly and majestically from the back- 
 ground of green aud scarlet foliage ; but a few short months' exposure to 
 this humid atmosphere of hill and river will soon give it the antique 
 bloom so dear to the virtuoso. 
 
 The statue, of course, remained veiled throiigh the daj', until the cul- 
 minating point of the exercises hereafter described. 
 
 The preparations for the ceremony were quite simple. A platfo)'m aboiit 
 twenty feet square aud four feet high was erected iinder the trees to the 
 right of the monument Upon this was placed a stand for the accom- 
 
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 modation of chaplain and orator, and a sufficient number of chairs for 
 the distinguished guests who were to take a prominent part in the exer- 
 cises. The platform was festooned with the United States flag, and upon 
 each of the four sides was a huge wreath of oak leaves. 
 
 Among the officers present on the occasion were Major-Gen eral George 
 B. McClellan, Major-General Franklin, Major-General S. P, Heintzelman, 
 Major-General Abner Doubleday, Major-General Alex. Shaler, Brigadier- 
 General C. H. Tompkins, Brigadier-General W. W. Burns, Brigadier-Gen- 
 eral Sherman, Colonel H. C. Pratt, U. S. A. ; Major T. M. Farrell, U. S. 
 A. ; Colonel G. N. Adams, Colonel A. J. Smith, Colonel S. J. Nevins, 
 Colonel Samuel Truesdale, Colonel D. Miln, Colonel Moore, Surgeon, U. 
 S. A. ; Colonel F. F. Flint, Colonel John Oakey, Major H. C. Ellis, Major 
 Bundy, Major T. Norton, Dr. Paige, U. S. A. ; Lieutenant Ilgers, Lieu- 
 tenant W. R. Hedden, Dr. Simmons, of the British Ai-my, etc. Governor 
 Marcus L. Ward, of New Jersey, was also present. 
 
 The only surviving sister of General Sedgwick, Mrs. Welsh, and two of 
 his cousins, Mr. Harry Sedgwick, and Mr. Charles Sedgwick, took part in 
 the exercises. 
 
 The grovind in the immediate vicinity of the statue was kept by one of 
 the companies of United States Engineers stationed at West Point. Am- 
 ple accommodation in the way of seats, etc., was provided for the general 
 public, of whom alone twelve hundred isersons were present, including a 
 large proportion of ladies. The disappointing aspect of the weather 
 doubtless prevented a larger number from being present. The steamer 
 Sylvan Shore brought up a number of officers, most of them comrades of 
 the Old Sixth Corps, from New York city. 
 
 The battery of light artillery was on the parade-ground long before the 
 hour appointed for the inauguration. The men looked admirably, and all 
 their horses and equipments were in excellent order. Shortly before three 
 o'clock they drew up in column in the roadway before the Professors' 
 residences. At three precisely the "assembly" sounded for the cadets, 
 and in a few minutes their companies were formed in line before their 
 quarters. The cadets were under command of Colonel Black. The offi- 
 cers and friends of thp deceased assembled on the left. When General 
 McClellan came upon the ground he was immediately surrounded by hosts 
 of delighted officers, who warmly clasped his hand and congratulated him 
 upon his return. The General looked remarkably well. He was plainly 
 dressed in civilian's attire. 
 
 The procession was formed in the following order, and moved to the 
 site under command of Major-General H. G. Wright, U. S. A. : 
 
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 Battery of Light Ai-tillery. 
 Music— Consisting of Military Academy Baud, Governor's 
 Island Band, and Band of the First United 
 States Artillery. 
 Battalion of Cadets. 
 Family and Kelatives of the late Major-General Sedgwick. 
 Rev. Dr. French, Chaplain. 
 Orator, 
 Mr. George W. Curtis. 
 The Monument Committee : 
 H. G. Wright, 
 Late Major-General United States Volunteers, Commander 
 Sixth Army Corps, and Brevet Major-General 
 United States Army ; 
 George W. Getty, 
 Late Major-General Volunteers, Commander Second Di- 
 vision Sixth Army Corps, and Brevet Mujor- 
 General United States Army ; 
 Frank Wheaton, 
 Late Major-General Volunteers, Commander First Division 
 Sixth Army Corps, Brevet Major-General 
 United States Ai-my ; 
 Truman Seymour, 
 Late Major-General Volunteers, Commander Third Division 
 Sixth Army Corps, Brevet Major-General 
 United States Armj'. 
 Civil Officers of the Government and of States. 
 Members of the Sixth Army Corps. 
 Army and Navy Officers, and Officers and I'rofessors of 
 the Military Aciidemy. 
 Citizens. 
 On arriving at the site, the order of pi-oceedings were under the direc- 
 tion of Major-tieneral Wright. The chaplain and orator were pro^^ded with 
 seats by the stand, and the distinguished officers present were seated 
 beside them. In the first line ap2)eared Major-Generals McClellan and 
 Franklin. Brevet Brigadier-General Pitcher, Commanding West Point, 
 was seated near these distinguished commanders. 
 
 The cadets wei-e drawn up in line in front of the jilatform, Colonel 
 Black standing a few paces in front of them. 
 
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 The following was the order of proceedings : 
 
 1. Prayer by the chaplain. 
 
 2. Music ("Stabat Mater"). 
 
 3. Unveiling of the Statue — "Present arms, rolls, and battery salute of 
 thirteen gi;ns. " 
 
 4. Oration. By Hon. George "W. Curtis, of New York. 
 
 5. Music ("Moses in Egypt"), 
 fi. Benediction. 
 
 7. Music. 
 
 The prayers offered by the venerable Chaplain of West Point were very 
 impressive and exalted in their character. They were three in number, 
 "For the Government," "For the Army and Navy, " " For a blessing on 
 the occasion. " 
 
 Immediately after the prayer, the grand and solemn strains of Rossini's 
 "Stabat Mater" pealed forth from the united bands ; and at ils conclu- 
 sion, Major-General Ricketts stepped forward, and, amidst breathless 
 silence, withdrew the United States flag from the statue. As the strik- 
 ing lineaments of the soldier that died for his country became visible to 
 the vast circle of spectators, a subdued murmur of applause and admi- 
 ration went up from among them, and died away in echoes of the tear- 
 ful woods. The silent sympathy which succeeded was, however, instant- 
 ly broken upon by the first gun of the salute from the battery, and by 
 the sharji command to the cadets, "Present arms." The drums also rol- 
 led out their vivacious clamor ; and the ceremonies culminated in a 
 burst of appiaiise, as the orator of the day, Mr. George W. Curtis, came 
 forward, MS. in hand, to deliver his address. A full report of this 
 splendid oration accomiDanies my letter, so that it is not necessary for 
 me to devote any extended notice to this admirable intellectual effort. 
 Suffice it to say, that the orator was interrupted by frequent bursts of 
 ajiplause, and that the many characteristic anecdotes he related of the 
 fallen hero begiiiled the audience of smiles and tears, or of that mixed 
 feehng [of the heart which is neither joy nor regret, but sweeter than either. 
 
 The exercises concluded with the selections from " Mose in Egitto, " 
 by the band, and the' benediction pronounced by the Rev. Dr. 
 French . 
 
 Immediately after the ceremony the cadets moved to the centre of 
 the ground, and had dress-parade. Their drill has been so frequently 
 admired and described, that I need only say the stranger visitors look- 
 ed on and " wondered with great admiration. " 
 
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 First. The undersigned do hereby agree and contract, 
 on the one part, to produce a portrait statue of the 
 late Major-General John Sedgwick, to be cast in bronze, 
 six feet high, with a suitable pedestal of granite, and 
 proper inscriptions, all in the highest artistic style, to 
 be properly placed and mounted at West Point, N. Y., 
 and within one year from date of this contract. The 
 bronze to be furnished to the artist from captured can- 
 non, if possible, to be procured from the War Depart- 
 ment. Any details otherwise unexplained to be subject 
 to the decision of the Committee from the Sixth Corps, 
 charged with this contract. 
 
 Second. Ten thousand dollars, currency, to be paid for 
 the above ; one-half on satisfactory completion of the 
 model in clay, the remainder when the statue shall be 
 delivered and placed on its pedestal at West Point. 
 It being understood that the pedestal referred to shall 
 be perfectly plain, excepting as to inscriptions, and that, 
 should farther ornamentation be required, additional sums 
 be paid therefor at the option of the Committee. 
 G. H. Weight, 
 
 3Iaj.-Gen., Commandinrj SfJi C()rp!<. 
 Geo. W. Getty, 
 
 Bvt. Mqj.-Gen, Cummanding Id Div., 6th Corps. 
 Fkaniv Wheaton, 
 
 BvL Mqj.-Gen, Commanding Id Div., 6th Corps. 
 Truman Seymoub, 
 
 Brig. -Gen, Commanding Sd Div.. 6th Corps. 
 Launt Thompson, 
 
 New York, May Idth, 1865. 
 
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