Troup-Coweta County GaArchives Military Records.....Grace, Charlie .
Civilwar LaGrange Light Guards (Troup Co., Ga.)
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"The Newnan Herald and Advertiser"
Newnan, Coweta Co., Georgia

NEWSPAPER Issue of Friday, February 4, 1910

LOCAL News

The LaGrange Reporter newspaper office has been shown a copy of that 
newspaper printed during the Civil War, in which the following item appears:

" It is believed that Charlie Grace of the LaGrange Light Guards, detailed 
as a sharpshooter, is the man who put an end to the mortal existence of 
Yankee General Sedgwick who was killed in one of the recent battles in 
Virginia. It is known that on the day Gen. Sedgwick was killed, Mr. Grace 
took a fair aim at some general officer of the Yankee Army, who was riding 
up and down his lines, and the said officer was seen to fall. We have seen 
it stated in an extract from a Northern newspaper that Sedgwick was so 
riding when the fatal missile reached him. Charles Grace had been a gallant 
soldier and had been in service ever since the war began, and if any man 
deserved promotion for gallantry and bravery, he is the man. He is now with 
his uncle, Major Grace in Newnan, Ga., having been wounded."

Charles Grace is long since dead as is his uncle Maj. Thos. Grace; but his 
cousin Mr. Walter C. Grace is yet living, being a resident of Newnan.


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