Re: SIF values for sustained & occ cases

Chris is probably busy doing forensic-related stuff, so I'll reply. I looked this up way back before Google after seeing it on one of the sci.eng groups; his sig has been the same ever since (maybe he's related). The story sounds like an urban legend, I'm CCing this to my good friends at snopes. If it's true, we'll know. If it's uncertain, I'm sure they can make up a plausible story.

Paul

<a href="http://www.angelfire.com/pa/Stump44/spotsylvania.html">http://www.angelfire.com/pa/Stump44/spotsylvania.html</a> "Gen. Sedgwick was struck by a ball while on foot, directly in rear of the 14th New Jersey, First Brigade, Third Division, Sixth Corps. Gen. Sedgwick was, as was his custom, posting a battery—the First Massachusetts—then earthworks at that point forming an angle, which he regarded as of great importance. Gen. Sedgwick while posting the battery noticed a member of Company G of that Regiment moving in a stooping position toward his company in the breastworks. Gen. Sedgwick smiled, and playfully raised his foot toward the cautious comrade, saying pleasantly and good humoredly: What are you dodging for? They cannot hit an elephant that far."

Just then he recieved the fatal shot. below the left eye, the ball passed out at the back of his head, and he never uttered one word after receiving the fatal shot. His body was placed in an ambulance and while passing to the rear the ambulance passed along the 93rd Regiment, and never had such a gloom rested upon the whole army on account of the death of one man as came over it as when the heavy tidings passed along the lines that the noble and beloved old Commander of the Sixth Corps had been killed." Received on Mon Sep 30 03:28:00 2002