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and Fredericksburg, and on the evening of May 4. in accordance with his orders. Sedgwick fell back, closely pursued, crossed the river, and joined Hooker. Seiigwick arrived at Gettysburg during the second day, July 2, 1863. after a forced march from Jlanchester, and took position in the rear of the left flank. During the battle he worked into the line at the rigiit of Sykes, and after the battle pursued Lee with the 1st and 6th corps, but had no engagement. On Nov. 7, 186:j. after Lee reached the Rajipaliannock, Sedg- wick was sent forward with the 3th and 6th corps to force the enemy across the river. He made a brilliant attack, captured the Confederate works and took many prisoners. When Grant marched around Lee's right flank, crossed the Rapidan, and started for Richmond, he was attacked on May 5, at the Wilderness, and when Warren's corps was attacked on the morning of May 6, Sedgwick joined him on the right, there enabling him to maintain his position in spite of a spirited charge. On May 7 the enemy remained behind intrenched lines, and Grant moved one corps at a time to Spottsylvania, where General Sedgwick met his death while directing the arrangement of his lines and artillery. His body was buried at Cornwall Hollow. Conn., and a bronze statue of him was erected at West Point, N.Y. He was killed by a Confederate sharpshooter at Spottsyl- vania. May 9. 1864.

SEDGWICK, Susan Anne Livingston Ridley, autlior. was born May '^4, 1788; daugliter of Mat- thew and Catharine (Livingston) Ridley; grand- daughter of Gov. William and Susanna (French) Livingston, and a descendant of Nicholas Ridley, the martyr. She was married, Nov. 28, 1808. to Theodore Sedgwick (1780-1839) Cq.v.), and is the author of: Morals of Pleasure (1829); The Young Emigrants (1830); Allen Prescott (3 vols., 188.5); Alicia, or Town or Country (1844), and Walter Thornley (1859). Siie died in Stockbridge, Mass., .Ian. 20. 1^07.

SEDGWICK, Theodore, statesman, was born in Hartford, Conn., in May, 1746; son of Ben- jamin and Ann (Thompson) Sedgwick; and a descendant of M.ij.-Gen. Robert Sedgwick, who immigrated to America in 1636, and who was given by Cromwell the supreme command of the Islaml of Jamaica in 10.56, the year of his death. Theoilore Sedgwick entered Yale college but was not graduated; studied theology; in 1766 was admitted to the bar; and practised in Great Bar- rington and Sheflield, Mass. Upon the outbreak of the Revolutionary war, he joined the patriot cause, serving as aid to Gen. John Thomas in the expedition to Canada of 1776. He was a repre- .sentative in the state legislature several terms; an.l a delegate from Massachusetts in the Con- tinental congress, 1785-88. He was a member of

the state convention that ratified the constitu- tion of the United States in 1789; was a Fetleral representative in the 1st, 2d, 3d and 4th con- gresses, 1789-97; a member of the U.S. senate, 1797-99, serving as president pro tern, in 1797; and w^as again a representative in the 6th con- gress, 1799-1801, serving as speaker of the house. He was appointed judge of the supreme court of Massachusetts in 1802, which office he held until his death. He was married three times: first, to Eliza, daughter of the elder Jeremiah Mason; secondly, to Pamela, daughter of Brig. -Gen. Josepli Dvvight; thirdly, to Penelope, daughter of Charles Russell. He wiis a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The honorary degree of A.M. was conferred upon him by Yale in 1772, and that of LL.D. by the College of Nassau (afterward Princeton), New Jersey, in 1799. He died in Boston, Mass., Jan. 24, 1813.

SEDQWICK, Theodore, lawyer, was born in Sheffield, Mass., Dec. 9, 1780; eldest son of Theo- dore (1746-1813) (q.v.), and Pamela (Dwight) Sedgwick. He was graduated from Yale in 1798; studied law with his father; was married, Nov. 28, 1808, to Susan Anne Livingston Ridley: and practised law in Albany. N.Y., 1801-21. He re- moved to Stockbridge, Mass., and engaged in farming. He was a representative in the state legislature, 1824, 1825. and 1827, introducing and carrying through a bill for the construction of a railroad from Boston to Albany. He was the un- successful Democratic candidate for lieutenant- governor of the state for several successive years and was president of the county agricultural society. He is the author of: Hints to My Counti-ymen ( 1 820); Public and Private Economy, Illustrated by Observations made in Europe in 1836-37 (3 vols., 1838), and Addresses to the Berk- shire Agricultural Association (1823 and 1830). He died in Pittsfield. Mass., Nov. 7, 1839.

SEDQWICK, Theodore, autiior, was born in Albany, N.Y., Jan. 27, 1811; son of Theodore (1780-1839) (q.v.) and Susan (Ridley) (q.v.) Sedgwick. He was graduated from Columbia college in 1829, and was admitted to the bar in 1833. He was appointed attache to U.S. Ambas- sador Edward Livingston, 1833-34. He was married, Sept. 28, 1835, to Sarah Morgan Ash- burner, daughter of Luke Ashburner, formerly of Bombay, and Sarah (Morgan). He practised law in New York city, 1834-50; declined the appointment of U.S. minister to Tiie Hague tend- ered him by President Buchanan, in 1857, and also the assistant secretaryship of state; was U.S. attorney for the southern di.strict of New York, 1858-59; president of the New York Crystal Palace association, 18.52-.59: and a trustee of the N.Y. College of Physicians and Surgeons. 1842- 59. He is the author of: Memoir of William