The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-05-04
DANIEL T. S|CKLES
YIELDS TO DEATH
Aged Warrior of Civil War
Fame Passes Peacefully
Away.
AT PEACE WITH ALL WORLD
Dies in Faith That He Adopted
on Field of Gettysburg, Where
He Lost a Leg.
Especial to The rimes-Dispatch.1

New. York, May general Daniel
E. SlckIes. the veteran OF Gettysburg.
died in his homo, % Fifth Avenue.
at 9:1o tonight. Death. caused by
cerebral hemorrhagcs. came quiet
ly. The gnarled old battle eagle, whose
life was one OF continual tempest, sur
rendered TO death as peacefully as a
child might. FIo was eighty-nine
yearB old.
AT his bedside when the end came
was his wife. Caroline C. Sicklcs. who
just three weeks ago to-day returned
to the old soldier after twenty y-nine
years OF absence: Stanton Sickles. tho
old generals son: John J. Kirby, at
torney for Mrs Sicleles, and Frazer
body servant.
DR.. ]. A. Spnnn. the old soldiers
physician. arrived few minutes after
tho end came.
The hour of death was by all means
the quietest. the most peaceful Of any
In many years for the aged warrior.
He had madc his peace with all the
world He died In tho faith that he
adopted on the battlefield of Gettys
burg. whore he lost a leg. At that
time. with the possibility OF death
close by, General Sicltles embraced the
Catholic faith. Since that time. as the
old time vigor returned, the general
bonsted of fearing neither God nor
man. But last week, with the soften
ing influence Of death Welling over
him. the general asked for and re-
ccived from Father Averd, of st. JOS
eph's. the last rites OF his adopted
church.
LAST OF GREAT COMMANDERS
WHO FOUGHT Al GETTYSBURG
General Daniel Edgar SiclSlcs was the
last Of the great commanders who
fought the battle Of Gettysburg. For
Il decade he was fighter by profess
sion-all his life no was n fighter by
nature.
The gruff old warrior. with ono leg
shot away in battle. his massive head
resembling Bsmarcks. was a pic
turesque figure as he hobbled along on
Of his turbulent life
His indomitahle fighting spirit re-
mained TO the last. Born I'm New York
lCity in 1925. Sickles, at the age OF
twenty-five, fought the Wings as n
Democrat In the New York Legislature
At twenty -eight he displayed his fight
Ing spirit aS corporation attorney OF
New York. 1t was he who secured for
his city its great Central Park. At
this time his military career began as
major OF tho Twelfth Regiment, Ma
tiOnal Guard, New York.
Before he WAS thirty-two years old
Major Sickles had served as secretary
Of legation at London under Minister
| James buchanan: he had won State
senatorship through bitter campaign,
and he was seated in the Thirty fifth
Congress at Washington.
1t was at this time that an event oc-
Cured which became the sensation Of
the day. Sickles had begun his second
term as Congressman In 1859, when the
national capital was stirred by the
news that the young Representative
from New York had shot and killed
. in Erfn
District Attorney for the District OF
Columbia. Slckles declared that Key
had misled Mrs. Sickles, who was The
rose Pasioli, daughter of an Italian
music teacher. The trial lasted twenty
days. ending in the ncquittal Of Slckles
on the ground of "unwritten law" He
| then took his crrlng wife back
y am not aware of any statute or
code of morals" said Sickles to his
critics. (which makes 1t Infamous to
forgive woman. I can now see In the
almost universal denunciation with
which she Is followed to my threshold
| the misery and peril from which hav.
rescued the mother of my daughter.
shall strive to prove to all that an err
ring wife and mother may be forgiven
and redeemed"
Mrs. Sictles died OF a broken heart a
few years later.
| OFFERS SERVICE TO LINCOLN
AT OUTBREAK OF CIVIL WAR
at the outbreak OF the Civil War the
young fighting politician. then thirty
six years old, went to Lincoln to offer
his services.
You have bcen n leader In New
York Democratic politics." said the
President. IF you kept your end I'D
mt that game surely you'll do to take
command OF men In the field Raise
your regiments, and you shall be
brigadier- general In command"
Sickles raised the famous Excelsior
Brigade In New York, taking command
OF one of its regiments as colonel.
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