The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1914-05-07
.SICMES, CIVIL WAR
HERO, IS DEAD; HAD
ADVENTUROUS LIFE
Last Surviving General of Get
tysburg Comes to End Of
Romantic Career.
ONCE TRIED FOR MURDER
Acquitted, Following Killing Of Mar
Who Lured Away His First
Wife--ones Rich, Dies
in Poverty. .

New York, May 5.-Gen. Daniel II.
Sickles died at his home shortly after
y O'Clock last night. His wife was at
his bedside at the end. 1's&
Mrs. Sickles, who had been estranged
from her husband for more than a
quarter Of a century, went to the gem
srafs house yesterday when she was
informed he was dying and took charge
or the arrangements for his care. She
remained near his side through the day
y watched by him until his death.
The Ina reconciliation was brought
about largely through the efforts Of
their son, Stanton, 1t Is understood.
Gen. Daniel Edgar Sickles was the
last Of the great commanders who
Fought the battle of Gettysburg. For a
decade he was a fighter by profession
all his life was a fighter by natur
Lost leg in Battle. .
The gruff old warrior. with one leg
shot away in battle, his massive head
resembling Bismarck's, was a pictur-
esque figure as ne hobbled along on
crutches during the last half century
of his turbulent life.
His indomitable fighting spirit re-
NAMED to the last. Born In New York
city in 1926, Sickles, at the age Of %,
Fought the wings as a democrat In the
New York legislature. At 20 he dis
PtaSO" iAS ltSIlllS 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
ega as major of the Twelfth regi-
ment. national guard, New York.
Before he was 80 years old, Major
Sickles had served as secretary of the
legation at London under Minister
James Buchanan: he had won a state
senatorship through a bitter campaign,
and he was seated in the Thirty fifth
congress at Washington.
1t vas at his time that an event
occurred which became the sensation
OF the day. Sickles had begun his Sec
ond 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
Phlhp Barton Key, the United States
district attorney for the District. Of
Columbia. Sickles declared tina Key
had nisled Mrs. Sickles, who was
Therese Lagioli. daughter of an Italian
music teacher. The trial lasted 20
days, ending in the acquittal of Sickles
on the ground of "unwritten law" He
then took his erring wife back.
4 am not aware Of any statute or
code of morals" said Sickles to his
critics, which makes 1t Infamous to
forgive a oma l can now see in the
almost universal denunciation with
which she is followed to my threshold,
n misery and peril from which I have
rescued the mother of my daughter. I
shall strive to prove to all that an err
ring wife and mother may be forgiven
and redeemed"
Mrs. Sickles died of a broken heart
q few years later.
At the outbreak of the civil war, the
young fighting politician. then SO years
old, went to Lincoln to offer his SER
vices.
You have been a leader in New
York democratic politics." said the
that game surely you'll do to take COM
mand of men in the field. Raise your
regiments and you shall be brigadier
general in command"
Soldier and Diplomat.
Sickles raised the famous Excelsior
brigade in New York, taking command
OF one OF its regiments as colonel. Lin
coin kept his word and in 1851 raised
him to b%rigadier general. His fighting
spirit early won him his spurs. On the
Peninsula n at Antietam he distin-
guished himself as a soldier and leader.
At Charlottesville he led a division.
At Gettysburg he led the Third corps,
lost a Leg, and became q national hero.
At 81 years Of age he had risen from a
colonel to major general of volunteers.
After the war his fighting spirit led
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came first brigadier and then major
general. He continued active service
until 1869, when he was appointed min
lister to Spain by President Grant.
At the our of Spain, Sickles' vigor-
Gus personality made him a dominat-
ing figure. Four years of brilliant di-
plomacy brought him the epithet of
THE Yankee King of Spain" Here he
contracted his second marriage. with
the beautiful and distinguished SEN
orita Creagh. This romance was fol-
lowed by estrangement which was to
last more than a quarter century. In
addition to this domestic trouble, came
his interference in the marriage plans
of his daughter to a penniless Spanish
nobleman. Father and daughter sep
arated in bitterness, the latter to re-
turn to the United States to die with
out reconciliation At n time he had
a fortune, but he died in poverty.
While arrangements for the funeral
Of Gen. Daniel f. Sickles, who died last
night. had not been completed today, 1t
was said h old soldier, the last OF the
brigade commanders Of the civil war,
would be buried with military honors.
He may be buried in Arlington beside
the military leaders Of the nation.
General Sickles had not been in good
health for years. Last March he suf-
ared a hemorrhage which left him
partly paralyzed. The stroke was soon
after the death of his housekeeper, Miss
Eleanor Earle Wilmerding.
Twice last week the general suffered
he~morrhages and following the last
seizure on Saturday night helapsed
into Inconsistencies and remained in
that state except for brief intervals
until his death. When conscious in his
last hour, however, he could not speak.
SOCIAL WORKERS TO MEET.
Memphis, Tenn. May Social work.
RS from all parts OF the United States
will gather in Memphis this week for
the 41st annual meeting of the national
conference OF charities and corrections,
rhtch oDens It's sessions MAY s con-