Famous Last Words: The Tale of Union General John Sedgwick

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Lindsay and Madison discuss Union Major General John Sedgwick, as well as how to be a decent human, the importance of keeping up with emerging tech, and the lasting irony of one’s last words.

Information pulled from the following sources

• 2025 A Civil War Traveler blog post

• 2025 Helytimes blog post

• 2024 Emerging Civil War blog post by Chris Mackowski

• 2023 The Reconstruction Era blog post by Patrick Young

• 2019 All That’s Interesting article by Aimee Lamoureux

• 2018 Today in Connecticut History blog post

• American Battlefield Trust (1)

• American History Central

• Fandom

• Find a Grave

• The Gettysburg Experience article by Diana Loski

• Wikipedia

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