Complex sentence: Sickles was charged with murder and secured several leading politicans as his defense attorneys, among them Edwin M. Stanton, later to become Secretary of War, and Chief Counsel James T. Brady, like Sickles a product of Tammany Hall.
Split into simpler sentences: Sickles was charged with murder and secured several leading politicans as his defense attorneys. Among them was Edwin M. Stanton, later to become Secretary of War, and Chief Counsel James T. Brady, like Sickles a product of Tammany Hall.