The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1913-07-17
Gen. Dam SickIes. Abraham Lin
colin, AND t13e Battle OF
Gettysburg.

wards became King George ~ was in
London when the Battle of Waterloo was
fought Nevertheless, the idea got into his
head, some years later, that he had fought at
Waterloo; and the older he grew, the firmer
was his conviction upon that subject.
AT the annual Waterloo banquet in London.
old George would drink his way bravelv to
has third or fourth bottle of port, and then he
would begin to explain to the other 3-bottle
gentlemen how he, George, had won the
Battle Of Waterloo
They say that the Duke of Wellington's
face was a study, as he listened to these
heroics of his beloved Sovereign and Master
King George ".
1t is not quite that bad yet, with Gen. Dan
Sickles. But if he lives to see another Gettys-
burg Reunion, and the whiskey proves to be
as strong as it was this year, I honestly
believe that the old General will do away
with all the other Union officers and will
gain that famous victory, all by himself
Gen. Meade will not be in it at all nor will
Hancock, Warren, Wadsworth, Buford, or
Howard.
Gen. Sickles fought we'll at Gettysburg,
and lost a limb there: that much, everybody
Comedies But when he hangs the whole
battle around his own neck, and pictures him
self as the officer who brought Lee, Long
street and Pickett to grief, he oVerdraws his
account.
[ noticed in the first letter that the old
General wrote to the New York World that
there were others on the battlefield besides
SicIxles In the second letter, Sickles had
gained ground amazingly; and in his third
letter, it was Sickes who won the fight. If
the old General and his J. Barleycorn had
held out for more letters, [ don't believe that
there would have been a Union officer IN
SIGHT excepting Siczles.
The following skit is from the Truth
Seeker:
The reunion at Gettysburg affords Gen. Daniel
r. Sickles. who thinks he the battle for the
North, another occasion for passing out his mag
NATIVE interview with Lincoln and the story how
Lincoln prayed for and achieved the victory with
Gods help. The story relates to the 9TH day or
July 1853, when General Sickes having lost a
leg, was at his lodging house in Washington He
says in the interview published in the neWspa-
pers on June 20 that Lincoln visited him, and he
gives what purports to be the conversation that
then took place. Lincoln, he alleges, confded to
him that he had prayed for the Gettysburg VIC
tory of the preceding week, and even repeated the
language he had addressed to God, which the
general reproduces How many times the
aged warrior has given the newspapermen this
tale we do not know 1t was first brought to our
attention five years ago. Then there was more
of it: for when the subject of Gettysburg had
been exhausted, General Sickles, as his narrative
proceeded, said to Lincoln, How about Vlcks-
burg?" and the President replied, "Oh Vicks-
burg will come out all right. Grant will win
down there my faith is strong. I am convinced
he will be successful" This Sunday July
s. and considering that Grant and Pemberton
had agreed upon conditions for the surrender OF
Vcksburg on July 3, and that the formal sur
render took place on the morning of July and
was known in distant parts of the country before
night, it seems incomprehensibe that Lincoln
should have been ignorant of it on the 9Th. Cen
eral Sickles' story fell under criticism in 1908
on account of the discrepancy, and that may be
the reason he has dropped the Vicksburg mat
ter out of the famous interview between imself
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