Daniel Edgar Sickles
✓ Source-basedrisingUnited States Army Medal of Honor recipient and Union Army general (1819-1914)
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Daniel Edgar Sickles was an American politician, Civil War veteran, and diplomat. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives both before and after the war.
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Sickles fatally shoots Key in 1859.
The trial of Sickles. Engraving from Harper's Magazine
Maj. Gen. Daniel E. Sickles, c. 1859-1870. Carte de Visite Collection, Boston Public Library
Sickles in 1861.
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Sickles's leg, along with a cannonball similar to the one that shattered it, on display at the National Museum of Health and Medicine
Sickles meeting with Samuel P. Heintzelman not long after his amputation.Awards 1
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About this person
Country
United StatesCategory
Politicians
Type
Politician
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1819 to 1914 · aged 94
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