"Here is a man still in his prime...whose career has been as diversified and romantic as if he had filled out
a full century of endless action...His recent coup d'etat against the Erie Ring would alone make any man famous.
Few characters in our country, or in our history, have passed through so many ordeals."

                            John W. Fornay

"One might as well try to spoil a rotten egg as to damage Dan's character."

                                 George Templeton Strong

"I have said to you before that I do not deem it a wise course, nor recommend it to any friend;
but I have adopted it; it is mine, and I will follow it come what may."

                         D. E. Sickles

Taken from the Forward of Sickles The Incredible by W. A. Swanberg
Charles Scribner's Sons, Copyright 1956, 1984
Reprinted by Stan Clark Military Books, 1991

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Major General Daniel E. Sickles and Staff

A Brief Biography of Daniel E. Sickles
 

Major General Daniel E. Sickles visiting the Gettysburg Battlefield (Trostle Farm)
along with Generals Joseph B. Carr and Charles K. Graham
1888 - 25th Anniversary of the Battle

The 3rd Corp. marker at the Trostle Farm, below, marks the location of General Sickles' wounding,
and is approximately where Generals Sickles, Carr and Graham were standing in the photograph above.

The Trostle Farm at Gettysburg, where Major General Daniel Sickles lost his right leg, July 2, 1863.
Left: At the time of the battle             Right: Present day

Monument to the Third Corps. marking the approximate location where Sickles was stuck by a cannonball

Above, Daniel E. Sickles arriving to the 50th Anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, in 1913,
purportedly accompanied by his housekeeper, Eleanora Earle Wilmerding.

Below, at the reunion, surrounded by the men of BOTH Blue and Gray who loved and admired him.

General Sickles signs a few autographs for fellow veterans

The Funeral Procession of General Daniel E. Sickles
Up Fifth Avenue in New York City
May 8, 1914

Below, arriving and leaving St. Patrick's Cathedral

New York Times Obituary/Editorial for Daniel E. Sickles
Published May 5, 1914

View the text of Documents at The Morrisville State College Library
including:
Daniel E. Sickles' New York Times Obituary - May 4, 1914
New York Times Article about GAR Ceremonies, Funeral Procession up 5th Avenue and Requiem Mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral - May 8, 1914
New York Times Articles about plans to bury Daniel E. Sickles at Arlington National Cemetery - May 6 & 10, 1914
 

Daniel E. Sickles at rest
At left, his gravestone with Medal of Honor designation at Arlington National Cemetery.
At right, the remains of the General's right lower leg - and an exemplar of the projectile which helped remove it.

One of the great legends from the 19th century was how the General donated his amputated limb to the Army Medical Museum
in Washington D.C., where he oft brought close friends and guests to visit it after the war.
The strange tale is true - although the doctor who performed the amputation may deserve some of the credit (or blame) for the decision -
and the leg can, today, be seen at the National Museum of Health and Medicine at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
General Sickles was, reportedly, quite disappointed to discover that his entire leg was not saved, but only the injured portion.
It was also said that he loved that leg in the hospital/museum so much, that he would rather part with the good one, than the one on display.

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Sickles Family and Friends
and Miscellaneous

Others from Daniel E. Sickles' Life

Philip Barton Key
1818-1859
(and the incident)

Princess Vilma Lwoff-Parlaghy and the Lion Cub General Sickles (Goldfleck)
1863-1923
(Goldfleck 1912)

Miscellaneous Documents

"General Sickles' Latchstring" (New York Times Article)
Published October 28, 1892

"Sickles Attacks Wife" (New York Times Article)
Published September 27, 1912

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