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• Sedgwick, John    b. September 13, 1813  d. May 9, 1864
  Civil War Union Major General. One of the best known Corps commanders of the Army of the Potomac during the Civil War. General Sedgwick, a 1837 West Point graduate, served in the Mexican War and on the US Frontier, often with many army officers who would become generals for both the South and the North in the war. He commanded a division in the Second Corps during General George B. McClellan's Pennisular compaign, the Second Bull Run campaign, and the Battle of Antietam, where his command was...[Read More] (Bio by: Russ Dodge)
  Cornwall Hollow Cemetery, Cornwall Hollow, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA
   
• Van Doren, Mark    b. June 13, 1894  d. December 10, 1972
  Poet. Pulitzer Prize winning poet and literary critic. He was awarded the prize for his 1940 "Collected Poems." (Bio by: Russ Dodge)
  Cornwall Hollow Cemetery, Cornwall Hollow, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA
   

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