- CountryUS
- Town:PA Gettysburg
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Year of creation:1912
- Rider(s):Sedgwick, John
(1813–1864) was a major general in the Army of the Potomac. He was the highest-ranking Union casualty in the Civil War, killed by a sniper, just as he was saying to his men: ‘What? Dodging this way for single bullets? I’m ashamed of you. They couldn’t hit an elephant at this distance’.
- Sculptor(s):Bush-Brown, Henry Kirke
(1857–1935) was an American sculptor and the adopted nephew of sculptor Henry Kirke Brown. He was raised in Newburgh, New York and attended the National Academy of Design in New York City.
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Next to the equestrian statues of George Meade and John Reynolds, Bush-Brown also produced this equestrian bronze of General John Sedgwick, the senior most Union casualty of the American Civil War, who was killed later at the Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse and who had participated in the Battle of Gettysburg. The statue of Sedgwick incorporates such details as the dents in the General’s scabbard and the tiny stitching seen on the horse blanket.
