MAJOR GENERAL DANIEL E. SICKLES - PAMPHLET SIGNED 09/15/1885 - HFSID 279142
Price: $450.00
MAJOR GENERAL DANIEL E. SICKLES
Copy of Leaves from My Dairy by American Civil War General
Daniel Sickles, reprinted from Journal of The Military Service Institution of
the United States and signed "Compliments of the Author" by
Sickles
Pamphlet signed: "Compliments of the/Author/Sept. 15th/'85".
36 pages including cover, 6¼x9. With numerous black ink and lead pencil
notations in unknown hand. Reprint of Leaves from My Diary by
Major-General, Daniel E. Sickles from Journal of The Military Service
Institution of the United States, Vol. 6, numbers 22 and 23. Daniel E.
Sickles (1825-1914), born in New York City, had gained notoriety
before the Civil War when he shot Philip Barton Key, the son of Francis Scott
Key, because he believed Key and his wife were lovers. (Sickles was tried
for murder but acquitted, the first successful "temporary insanity" defense
in U.S. history.) During the American Civil War, he rose from colonel to
major general in command of a brigade at Gettysburg. Sickles, thinking
that his position was vulnerable, moved his 3rd Corps from Cemetery Ridge to
the battlefield's Peach Orchard without orders. His action drew criticism,
but he was later credited with staving off disaster by blocking a surprise
attack led by General James Longstreet against the Union Army's left flank at
Little Round Top. Sickles lost a leg in the fighting, but won the respect of
General Winfield Scott Hancock, in command at Little Round Top. Sickles'
brigade, however, had the fifth most killed and wounded of all brigades in the
war. He represented New York in the U.S. Congress (1857-1861, 1893-1895)
and was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor in 1897. Lightly toned,
stained and creased. Cover has light tears and is missing both right corners.
Spine has torn and separated in places from text block; repaired with tape.
Random ink stains. Folded once and unfolded. Otherwise, fine
condition.
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