The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-05-04
OLD WARRIOR
S|CKLES LOSES
HIS LAST FIGHT
One of the Last of the Gettys-
burg Heroes Answers
Final Taps.
tBY AssoeiArrp PREss,

NEu YORK, May 4.-GeneraI
here.
General Daniel Edward sickles
was the head Of the great commando
ers who fought the battle Of Gettys-
burg. For decade he was fighter
by professionally his life he was a
fighter by nature
The gruff old warrior. with one
leg shot away in battle, his massive
head resembling Bismarek's, was q
picturesque figure as he hobbled
a4o % Ss-onsfer 1tohes~ during the last
mar century of his turblent life.
HIS indomitable lighting spirit re-
NAMED to the last. Born In New.
York City in 1926, Sickles, at the
age of %, fought the Wings as
democrat in the New York legisla-
ture. At %, he displayed HIS fight
ing spirit as corporation attorney. OF
New York. 1t was he who secured
for his city It's great Central park.
AT this time his military career began
as major of the Twelfth regiment,
National Guard, New York.
Before he was 80 years old. Ma
Jor Sickles had served as secretary
of legation at London under Minis
ter James Buchanan; he hal won a
state senatorship through a bitter
campaign; and he was seated In the
Thirty-ffth Congress at Washing.
ton.
1t was at this time that an event
occurred which became the sensas
ton of the day. Stokes had begun
mis- second term as congressman In
1853 when the national capital was
stirred by the news that the young
representative from New York had
shot and killed Philip Barton Key,
the United States district attorney
for the District OF Columbia. Slcklea
declared that Key had misIed Mrs.
sickles, who was Miss Therese
Bagioli, daughter of an Italian mn.
sic teacher, The trial lasted twenty
days, ending in the acquittal OF Sick
les on the ground Of "unwrttten
law" He then took his erring wife
back.
Il am not aware of any statute or
cole OF morals" haid Sickles to ais
critics. which makes 1t Infamous to
forgive a woman. can now see m
the almost universal denunciation
with which she is followed to my
threshold, the misery and peril from
which / have rescued the r4otheR Vi
my daughter. shall strive to
prove to all that an erring wife and
mother may be forgiven and re-
deemed
Mrs. Sickles died of broken heart
a few years later.
At the outbreak of the Civil war, the
young fighting politician, then &c
years old, went to Lincoln to offer
his services
You have been leader in New
York Democratic politics." said the
president. IF you kept your end mn
at that game surely you'll do to take
command OF men in the field. Raise
your regiments and you shall be
brigadler-general in command"
Sickles raised the famous Excelsior
brigade in New York, taking command
OF one Of its regiments as colonel.
Lincoln kept his word and in 1861
raised him to acknowledgements HIS
fighting spirit early won him his
spurs. On the peninsula and at An
'tietam he distinguished himself as "a
soldier and leader. At Chancellors
Vile he led a division. At Gettysburg
he led the Third corps, lost leg, ana
became a national hero. At 81 years
Of age, he had risen from colonel to
major-general of volunteers.
After the war his lighting spirit led
MIN into the regular army, and hs
became first, brigadier and then major
general. He continued active service
until 1853, when he was appointed
minister to Spain by President Grant.
At the court OF Spain, Sickles's VIZ
orous personality made him doni.
mating figure -Four years OF brilliant
diplomacy brought him the eplthet 81
The Yankee King OF SPAIN. Hero
he contracted his second marriare
With the beautiful and DISTINGUISHED
senorita ereash This romance was
a.