"Uncle John" -- R.I.P.

[cwmackowski]

The monument to "Uncle John" Sedgwick, who was killed by a sharpshooter on May 9, 1864--149 years ago today at the Battle of Spotsylvania. "They couldn’t hit an elephant at this distance,” Sedgwick said just before taking a bullet below the left eye. The shot killed him instantly. He was the highest-ranking Union officer killed during the Civil War.

Read on (and see the picture), Macduff, at Emerging Civil War.