While completing completely unrelated research, found the following printed in the Shenandoah Herald, Woodstock, Shenandoah Co., VA, 8 October 1897, pg. 3, col. 4, "Death of a Gallant Confederate Soldier".

"Mr. [Abram] Crabill went through the war as a member of Co. B, 33rd Va. Regiment, Stonewall Brigade, and was a gallant and faithful soldier. That he killed Genl. Sedgwick, one of the ablest corps commanders of the yankee army, hardly admits of the slightest doubt. It was during an interval of the hard fighting of Grant's Wilderness compaign [sic]. Mr. Crabill was on the line of sharpshooters when Sedgwick rode up to a battery that the enemy were putting in position. He dismounted and was giving the gunners instructions when Mr. Crabill took careful aim and fired and the general fell mortally wounded. His was the only shot fired just at that time, and was unquestionably the one that hit Sedgwick."

Is there any possible truth in this statement, or is it just 'newspaper talk'?