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I saw another version that said "They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist..."
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Originally Posted by Grandstander
Union general John Sedgwick managed to immortalize his last words. At the Battle of Spotsylvania, he noticed some of his troops ducking away from some long range Confedrate sniper fire. Sedgwick stepped out into the open and said "What? Men dodging this way for single bullets? What will you do when they open fire along the whole line? I am ashamed of you. They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance."
Perhaps not an elephant, but as it developed, they could hit a general, which they did just a couple of seconds after Sedgwick spoke, hitting him below his left eye and killing him instantly.
The last spoken words of W.C. Fields were, "Goddamn the whole friggin' world and everyone in it except you, Carlotta." Not the most memorable sentence of his career, but then he was about to have a violent hemorrhage in his stomach and die, so I guess he wasn't giving much thought to an immortal last line.
On this subject, I always recall the writer O. Henry's last remark when he was on his deathbed.
"Turn up the lights. I don't want to go home in the dark."
Caesar said "Et tu, Brutus?" in the Shakespearian play, which was fictional.
True, his actual last words are a matter of debate. "You too, Brutus?" or "You also, my son?" or "You too, my child?". Others believe he said nothing.
Shakespeare wrote fiction but he did base it on reports of real events (apart from his character assassination of Richard III who was not a deformed hunchback - a classic case of the victor writing history).
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