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	Daniel Sickles - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sickles was born in New York City to Susan Marsh Sickles and George Garrett Sickles, a patent lawyer and politician.
		Sickles was a close ally of Major General Joseph Hooker, who was his original division commander and eventually commanded the Army of the Potomac.
		Sickles was president of the New York State Board of Civil Service Commissioners from 1888 to 1889, was sheriff of New York in 1890, and was again a representative in the 53rd Congress from 1893 to 1895.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Daniel_Sickles (2023 words)

	Dan Sickles
		Major Gen. Daniel E. Sickles, com- mander of the Third Army Corps on the memorable field of Gettysburg, where one of his legs was shot off, and sub- sequently the representative of this Government at the Court of Spain, died last night at 9:10 o'clock at his home, 23 Fifth Avenue.
		Sickles had rendered her hus- band this service, he issued a statement attacking her motives for doing so, and asserting that it was not necessary for her to pawn her jewels.
		Sickles, as Senorita Carmina Creagh, the daughter of Chevalier de Creagh of Madrid, a Spanish Councillor of State, was married to Gen. Sickles on Nov. 28, 1871, at the American Le- gation in Madrid, when the General was Minister to Spain.
	library.morrisville.edu /local_history/sites/gar_post/sickles1.html (2012 words)

	Sources - Daniel Sickles
		At the outbreak of the American Civil War Sickles was active in raising United States volunteers in New York, and was appointed colonel of a regiment.
		Sickles was minister to Spain from 1869 to 1873, and took part in the negotiations growing out of the Virginius Affair.
		General Sickles was president of the New York State Board of Civil Service Commissioners in 1888 to 1889, was sheriff of New York in 1890, and was again a representative in the 53rd Congress in 1893 to 1895.
	mywebpage.netscape.com /Abderhalden5564/daniel-sickles-sources.html (660 words)

	GETT KIDZ- General Sickles
		Daniel Edgar Sickles was born in New York City on October 20, 1819, the son of a lawyer and legal wrangler.
		The young Sickles was not a model child or a model school student, but exhibited an attitude of independence from his studies.
		Wrapped in scandal, supporters believed Sickles' political career to be at an end; yet Daniel Sickles was certain that he was not through with the world of politics.
	www.nps.gov /gett/gettkidz/gkbios/sickles.htm (821 words)

	Daniel Edgar Sickles (1819-1914)
		Born in New York City, Sickles learned the printer's trade, studied in the University of the City of New York (now New York University), was admitted to the bar in 1846, and was a member of the New York Assembly in 1847.
		Sickles' division fought with distinction in the Battle of Fredericksburg, and in 1863, as a major general, he assumed command of the III Corps.
		Sickles preserved the leg's bones and donated them to the Army Medical Museum in Bethesda, Maryland, along with a visiting card marked, "With the complements of Major General D.E.S." For several years thereafter, he reportedly visited the limb on the anniversary of the amputation.
	www.thelatinlibrary.com /chron/civilwarnotes/sickles.html (1430 words)

	Daniel Sickles
		This may have been a factor that led Sickles to redeploy III Corps, originally posted at the far left on Cemetery Ridge to the summit of Little Round Top, forward to higher ground along the Emmitsburg Road from the Peach Orchard and the Wheat Field and anchored on the Devil's Den.
		Sickles was seen smoking a large cigar as he was carried from the field on a stretcher.
		After Sickles was wounded, III Corps was under the operational commend of Winfield Hancock, who was coördinating the center of the Army of the Potomac.
	schwartz.eng.auburn.edu /ACW/lrtmap.docs/sickles.html (543 words)

	Daniel Edgar Sickles, Major General, United States Army
		Sickles initially was placed in a dark, filthy, vermin-infested cell at the Washington jail at Fourth and G streets, but soon was transferred to the jailer's own office.
		Sickles had rendered her husband this service, he issued a statement attacking her motives for doing so, and asserting that it was not necessary for her to pawn her jewels.
		Sickles, as Senorita Carmina Creagh, the daughter of Chevalier de Creagh of Madrid, a Spanish Councillor of State, was married to Gen. Sickles on Nov. 28, 1871, at the American Legation in Madrid, when the General was Minister to Spain.
	www.arlingtoncemetery.net /dsickles.htm (8775 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia - Sickles, Daniel Edgar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		SICKLES, DANIEL EDGAR [Sickles, Daniel Edgar] 1819-1914, American politician, Union general in the Civil War, b.
		In 1859 he was acquitted on grounds of temporary mental aberration of the murder of Philip Barton Key (Francis Scott Key's son), whom Sickles shot because of Key's affair with his wife.
		In the Civil War, Sickles fought in the Peninsular campaign (1862), at Chancellorsville (1863), and in the Gettysburg campaign (1863), where he lost a leg.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/S/Sickles.asp (264 words)

	A National Morality Play: The Trial of Daniel Edgar Sickles for the Murder of Philip Barton Key (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Sickles had shot Key, his friend of several years, because he had just learned that Key had carried on a year-long affair with his wife, Teresa Bagioli Sickles.
		Acording to Butterworth's sworn statement, he left Sickles' house of his own volition, ran into Key without planning to, stopped merely to discuss the health of a mutual friend who happened to be a club member, and so witnessed the homicide as an innocent bystander.
		Teresa Sickles had been in the practice of signalling to him when she would be free to join him by waving a scarf from a second story window.
	www.assumption.edu /dept/history/Hi113net/sickles/default1.html (1319 words)

	BookRags: Daniel Edgar Sickles Summary
		Sickles may have been one of the first persons to use the insanity defense when charged with murder.
		Sickles also served as a military governor of the Carolinas and minister to Spain.
		Daniel Edgar Sickles was the only child born to George Garrett Sickles and Susan Marsh Sickles on October 20, 1819 in New York City.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-daniel-edgar-sickles/index.html (218 words)

	Daniel Edgar Sickles Biography
		In his pre- and post-Civil War careers, as well as during the conflict, Daniel E. Sickles proved to be one of the most controversial of Union corps commanders.
		Sickles, a congressman, shot down Philip Barton Key-the son of the composer of the "Star Spangled Banner"-in LaFayette Park,across the street from both Sickles' home and the White House.
		Sickles then publicly forgave his wife, outraging the public, which had applauded his role in the shooting, and apparently ending his political career.
	www.civilwarhome.com /sicklesbio.htm (649 words)

	Mr. Lincoln's White House: Gen. Dan Sickles (1819-1914) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Sickles said he did not, but that General Howard and perhaps himself, were more entitled to that credit than any others.
		Sickles visited the White House one night in December 1863 when there was a confrontation over Confederate sympathies of Mary Todd Lincoln's half-sister, Emilie Todd Helm.
		Sickles was an unprincipled opportunist whose reputation had not been enhanced by his comradeship with Union commander Joseph Hooker, whose vices as commander of the Army of the Potomac were well publicized.
	www.mrlincolnswhitehouse.org /inside.asp?ID=182&subjectID=2 (748 words)

	Museum News \| n m h m
		Daniel E. Sickles barged into the auditorium and claimed that there were inaccuracies in the presentation given by Alan Hawk, the manager of the museum's historical collections.
		However, Sickles sent it in a coffin-shaped box to the museum with an accompanying card that read, "With compliments of Major General D.E.S." Sickles was known to visit the museum, and his leg, every year on the anniversary of his amputation.
		Sickles was portrayed by Gregory Johnson, a Civil War lecturer, historian, and member of the Civil War Heritage Foundation.
	nmhm.washingtondc.museum /news/general_visit.html (390 words)

	SICKLES, Daniel Edgar (1819-1914) Bibliography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Sickles, of C. Scribner’s Sons, in the House of Representatives.
		Daniel E. Sickles, of N.Y., on the State of the Union, delivered in the House of Representatives, Dec. 10, 1860, on the motion to excuse Hon.
		E. Sickles’ Report to the General in Chief of the Army, relating to the issue made by the civil authorities with the Commanding General of the Second Military District.
	bioguide.congress.gov /scripts/bibdisplay.pl?index=S000402 (235 words)

	Richard A. Sauers: Gettysburg: The Meade-Sickles Controversy (Military Controversies) - Bøger
		Daniel E. Sickles, in a controversial interpretation of his orders, advanced his men beyond the established Union line, exposing his flanks to a potentially devastating Confederate attack.
		A politician and lawyer prior to the war, Sickles was already notorious for being the first person in U.S. history acquitted of murder by pleading temporary insanity.
		Sickles had located movements to the Federal left by the Confederates under Longstreet and moved his Corps to counter the threat.
	www.totaltiorden.dk /shop/product_details.php/1574884883 (1186 words)

	Wofford College Newsroom - Southern Seen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Union general Daniel Sickles caught our attention years ago when we read about how his leg, amputated at Gettysburg, was embalmed and displayed in Washington (where it still is today, on display at Walter Reed Hospital).
		Sickles was said to have visited it frequently in the remainder 53 years of his life.
		Immediately after the battle, Sickles began lobbying President Lincoln and Secretary of War Edwin Stanton and others to remove Meade from command of the eastern Union armies, and ever afterward Sickles campaigned self-servedly to show that he was the true hero of Gettysburg, not Meade.
	www.wofford.edu /southernSeen/content.asp?id=293 (641 words)

	Random Pensées: Behind the Curtain: Daniel Edgar Sickles
		Sickles immediately sent telegrams to the governors of those four states, signing the name of the chairman of the Republican Party, who was too drunk to do it himself.
		Sickles was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for his role at the Battle of Gettysburg where he lost his leg.
		Sickles rushed off telegrams to Republican leaders in those states, under the signature of Republican national chairman Zachariah Chandler, who was sleeping off a bottle of whiskey, urging them to hold their states for the Republicans.
	randompensees.mu.nu /archives/039076.php (1042 words)

	Price Compare ISBN 1879664038 Sickles the Incredible: A Biography of Daniel Edgar Sickles by W. A. Swanberg - Direct ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Sickles spoke in favor of the cause of freeing Cuba from the yoke of Spanish colonial oppression in the years after the Civil War, and he was always a patriot - at least he favored the U.S. government instead of secession in the great crisis!
		Daniel E. Sickles was born in New York City 20 Oct 1819, served three terms in the House of Representatives, and died May 3, 1914.
		Sickles the Incredible, by W.A. Swanberg is a book that explores the life and times of Daniel Sickles.
	www.directtextbook.com /isbn/1879664038 (1715 words)

	TheHistoryNet \| America's Civil War \| Union General Daniel Sickles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Sickles' salients played key roles in the courses of the two battles and significantly influenced their outcomes.
		Sickles undertook the task in earnest and raised the troops within a month.
		Between the XII and XI corps, Sickles' III Corps held a line that bulged to the south at the elevated clearing of Hazel Grove.
	www.historynet.com /magazines/american_civil_war/3027666.html (1314 words)

	Daniel E. Sickles
		Sickles became the first person in legal history to be acquitted after pleading temporary insanity.
		Johnson was opposed to this legislation and eventually Sickles and Philip Sheridan (Louisiana and Texas) were sacked for doing their work too enthusiastically.
		Sickles was appointed sheriff of New York City in 1889 and also served in the 53rd Congress (March, 1893 to March, 1895).
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USACWsickles.htm (363 words)

	Mr. Lincoln and New York (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Daniel Sickles was an expert at reinventing himself and ingratiating himself with Presidents.
		Sickles had been a prominent proponent of James Buchanan's presidential candidacy in 1856; he had served as Buchanan's diplomatic aide when Buchanan was U.S. Minister to England under the Pierce Administration.
		Sickles was authorized to raise five regiments and given a general's commission — outside the usual quota for New York.
	www.mrlincolnandnewyork.org /content_inside.asp?ID=78&subjectID=3 (3041 words)

	Leaders and Battles: Sickles, Daniel Edgar
		Sickles was educated at the University of New York before entering the printing profession.
		He was celebrated for gallantry at the battle of Chancellorsville when he withstood the forces belonging to Stonewall Jackson; however, was heavily criticized for his mistake at Gettysburg when he moved his men too far forward to higher ground, stretching the Union line too thin.
		Although Sickleâs losses were significant (including the loss of a leg from a shell that burst nearby), he was brevetted major general for gallant and meritorious service at Gettysburg.
	www.lbdb.com /TMDisplayLeader.cfm?PID=4444 (337 words)

	Sickles' Notes
		It was later noted of the irony of the glasses, for they were Key's means of seeing Sickles wife wave a scarf from the second story of her home, signalling it was safe to meet.
		Sickles returend the ring, but the sanctity of the marriage was forever destroyed in his eyes.
		Sickles was a big man; he later went on to serve in the Union Army with U.S.Grant and then as U.S. Ambassador to Spain.
	www.assumption.edu /users/McClymer/his260/SicklesNotes.html (1713 words)

	All about the insanity defense by Mark Gado
		Sickles became enraged because he had known for several weeks that Key was sleeping with his wife.
		Congressman Daniel Sickles (D.-NY) was arrested a short time later at the home of a friend and charged with murder.
		Daniel Sickles was a Union Army general who fought for several years in the Civil War.
	www.crimelibrary.com /criminal_mind/psychology/insanity/1.html (1031 words)

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	Daniel Edgar Sickles
		Sickles was in Congress when he shot a man, Francis Scott Key’s son, across the street from the White House.
		Sickles and the defense attorney (Edwin Stanton) tried a novel tactic: temporary insanity.
		Sickles was at least brave on the field, as well as losing a leg to a shellburst.
	ehistory.osu.edu /World/PeopleView.cfm?PID=66 (595 words)

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