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MAJOR GENERAL DANIEL E. SICKLES - PAMPHLET SIGNED 09/15/1885 - HFSID 279142

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".

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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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