John Sedgwick quote: They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist...

They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist...

John Sedgwick

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Quoted in Battles and Leaders of the Civil War (1887 - 1888). This line is popularly said to have been Sedgwick's last words and to have been cut off in the middle of "distance." In fact, this was Sedgwick's second-to-last sentence and was completed before the bullet hit.

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