John Sedgwick Frasi e Citazioni
[Ultime parole] Non potrebbero colpire nemmeno un elefante a questa distanza.
They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance.
Origine: Citato in Robert Denney, The Civil War, 1992; citato in Elizabeth M. Knowles, The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, Oxford University Press, 1999, p. 457 http://books.google.it/books?id=o6rFno1ffQoC&pg=PA457. ISBN 0198601735
John Sedgwick: Frasi in inglese
Allegedly these were among General John Sedgwick's final words. He was serving as a Union commander in the American Civil War, and was hit by a sharpshooter's fire a few minutes after saying them, at the battle of Spotsylvania to his men who were ducking for cover, on May 9, 1864. The words have often been portrayed as if they were absolutely his last statement, with the sentence being presented as if he did not even finish it, and altered into the form: "They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist..." . Though it may be a slightly more striking version of events, it is unlikely to be true.
Civil War Home site: eye-witness account http://www.civilwarhome.com/sedgwickdeath.htm
