The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-05-04
'MILlT ARY H0NORS.
 FOR GEN SICKLES
Hero May Rest In Ar linat ton Genet ary With Other Leaders.

iel E.. Sickles, who died last night, had not been finally completed today. l it was said the old soldier would be buried with military honors. He may be- buried in Arlington beside the military leaders of the nation. With I General. SickIes when he died were his son., Stanton, and his wife, from whom he had been estranged for 29 years.
 A reconciliation was effected only last Thursday and since then Mrs SickIes had been nursing the veteran. Last March General Sickles suffered a hemorrhage which left him partly ! para1yzed. Twice last week he suf- fered from hemorrhages and Sunday l night lapsed into unconsciousness and remained in that state for brief inter- lvals until he died.
 General Daniel Edgar sickles was l the last of the great commanders who
 fought the battle of Gettysburg. For 1 a decade he was a fighter by profes-
 sions-an his life he was a fighter by l nature. l His indomitable fighting spirit re-
 mained to the last Born in New York city in 1925, SIckIes, at the age of g, fought the Whigs as Demo
 crat in the New York Iegislaturf At 2S. lie displayed his fighting spirit as corporation attorney of New York. It was he who secured for his city it's great Central Park. At this time his military career began as major of the 12th regiment, National Guard. New York.
 Before he was g years old, Major
 Sickles had served as secretary of 1e- gation at London under Minister
 James Buchanan: he had won a state senatorship after a bitter campaign; and he was seated in the Thirty fifth
 Congress at Washington.
 HIS KILLING OF KEY It was at this time that an event of the day. SickIes had begun his second term as congressman in 1859
 when the national capital was stirred by the news that the young repre- l sentative from New York had shot
 and kiRed Philip Barton Key, the United States district attorney for 1 the District of Columbia. SickIes de- sclared that Key had nisled Mrs. Sic j. kIes, who was Therese Bagioli, daugh- l ter of an Italian music teacher. The 1 trial lasted 20 days ending in the ac- l duittaI of Sickles on the ground of I @unwritten. law. He then took his elring wife back.
 1T am not aware of any statute or scode of morals. z said Siokles to his critics, Which makes 1t infamous to fcrgive q woman. I can now see in l the almost universal denunciation l threshold the misery and peril from I which I have rescued the mother of my daughter. I shall strive to prove to all that an erring wife and mother 1 may De forgiven and redeemed.'' Mrs. Sickels died of a broken heart
 a few years later. e At the outbreak Of the civil war, the young fighting politician. then 36
 years old, went to Lincoln to offer his 1 services.
 You have been 3. leader in New 1 York Democratie politics., said the president. eff you kept your end up I at that game surely you'll do to take
 commend of men in the field. Raise your regiments and you shall be brig Eadier-general in command :
 RAISED EXCELSIOR BRIGADE
 sdckles raised the famous Excelsior
 Brigade in New York, taking command of one of it's regiments as colonel. Lincoln kept his word and in 1861 ] raised him to abrigad adier-general. His lighting spirit early won him his IsDlrs On the Peninsula and at An tietam he distinguished himself as a soldier and leader. At Chancellors- vile he led a division At Gettys-
 burg he led the Third Corps, lost a leg, sandabecame a national hero. At i.37 years#of age, he had risen from a colonel to major-generaI of yoIun- teens.
 1 <AIt6F slL0 War HlS HSnL1nS SplfIT IeQ him into the regular army, and he became first, brigadier and then ma
 jor-generaL He continued in active | service until 1869, when he was ap- ] pointed minister to Spain by Presi- I dent Grant,
 At the court of Spain. sickIes, vig- orous personality made him a domi-
 hating figure. Four years of brilliant
 diplomacy brought him the epithet of
 tThe Yankee King of Spain.,' Here he contracted his second marriage.
 with the beautiful and disting gl1isIled Senorita Creagh- This romance was followed by estrangement which was ] to last more than a quarter century 1 In addition to his domestic trouble 1 came his interference in the marriage I plans of his daughter to a penniless Spanish nobleman. Father and daugh- ter separated in bitterness, the latter | to return to the Limited States to die ] without reconciliation.
 LAST YEARS WE'RE BITTER. Returning alone to New York, Gen.
 eral sicl<1es again entered politics l He served as sheriff of New York and at 67 he was reelected to Congress. General SickIes' life drew to a close 1 with frequent romontic situations. He
 faced Bankruptcy proceedings in his l last years, though he had early In life I received a large share of his fathers 1 $3, GOO, 900 estate, but his estranged
 wife and son came to his aid on sew
 era1 occasions.
 l His last days were spent at 23 Fifth avenue, New York, surrounded by
 war. relics and attended by his faith
 flll. negro servant.
 Sixteen years ago today Co. K, 4th regiment c. N. G., left Bridgeport for the rendezvous camp at Niantic, where Iit was afterward mustered into the i-rT.- fnG yyfaIJ 1feas.T