More data about William Fountain Sedgwick (1842 - 1921):
Text of an e-mail message from Georgia Evans:


Wm. F. Sedgwick went from GA to Green Cove Springs, FL on Dec 14, 1863,  at 
age 18, to enlist as Private in Capt. Tucker's Co., 6 Battalion, Fla Infantry 
for 3 years, or the war.  This company became Co. D, 9 Regiment, Fla 
Infantry.  I have his enlistment papers.  He is listed in "Biographical 
Rosters of Florida's Confederate and Union Soldiers 1861-1865. 

You mentioned that rumor of origin in Maine possibly due to town.  I wrote, 
and have letter from Office of Municipal Clerk, dated May 16, 1985 stating 
that Anne Perrigo had searched town records and nothing indicated W. F. 
Sedgwick kin to any of the Theodore Sedgwick family.  Two Sedgwicks from 
Brewer, and Bangor, ME turned out to be father and son, and no relation. 

Wm. F.'s son, William Owen stated in a newspaper interview that his father 
came from Maryland "after the war".  Since Wm. F. had been at Appomattox, I 
wonder . 
Wm. F. had been in Howard's Grove Hospital, Richmond and there may not have 
been any familial importance to having come from Maryland though I've seen 
many references to Sedgwicks living in MD - just nothing to connect him to 
anyone. 

Also, a letter Jan 31, 1991 from James W. Campbell, Librarian and Curator of 
Manuscripts, New Haven Colony Historical Society advised me (I had sent all 
my papers and information to him) stated that  "there are no references to 
Sedgwicks in the southern states at all." 

Also, an interesting find in a genealogy of  (possibly) Hubert Sedgwick, on 
page 29-30  "B13,C.  Harriuet Ruggles Gold, 12th child of Deacon Benjamin 
Gold and Eleanor (Johnson) Gold, was b. June 10, 1805, d. Aug 15, 
1836.......Her marriage Mar 28, 1826, to Elias Boudinot (Boudinott) a 
Cherokee Indian student at the Foreign Mission School estab. at Cornwall, 
Conn........He had graduated from Andover Theo. Sch. before going to Cornwall 
to study......Harriet sided with her husband in elevating the Cherokee tribe 
to its proud position in Georgia.  Their six children became leaders of the 
tribe.  Boudinott translated the Bible into Cherokee.  Elias Boudinott's 
brother, Stand Watie, became a brigadier general in the Confederate Army, the 
last general to surrender to the Union.  One of Harriet's half-Cherokee sons 
joined the Union Army and was fatally wounded before Richmond........"  Is it ! 
possible that my Sedgwick line was disowned due to southern sympathies?  and 
therefore 'forgotten' by the family?   

My ggrandfather was literate, but don't believe he had much education, though 
he was respected gentleman.  He was poor, had elbow wound from Cold Harbor 
and didn't work at hard labor, at least in later life. 

Georgia Evans



Sedgwick.org notes:

I have found a few references to the southern states in the New Haven collectio,
but as Librarian and Curator of Manuscripts, Mr. Campbell, fine a job as he does,
cannot possibly know everything in every collection the library maintains. His 
job is to keep it in useable condition; our job is to use it.

Obviously the children of Harriet Ruggles Gold and Elias Boudinot were named
Boudinot, not Sedgwick, but this serves well to point out the possibilities of
remote connections becoming "disconnections." We have records of young men
leaving home and never being heard from again, or young women marrying, moving
and being lost to our records.

Georgia, if you learn more, let me know. I am always curious about the "Unknown
Sedgwicks"

-Dennis