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John Sedgwick, Union Army general, 1862-1867. The commander of the VI Corps of the Army of the Potomac, Sedgwick (1813-1864) was killed by a sniper at the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House in Virginia on 9 May 1864. He was the highest ranking Union general to be killed in action during the Civil War. An engraving from volume III of The War with the South : a History of the Late Rebellion, by Robert Tomes, Benjamin G Smith, New York, Virtue & Yorston, 3 Volumes, 1862-1867.