Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1914-05-05
GEN.. SICKLES OF
GETTYSBURGDEAD
LAST Oh THE GREAT COMMAND
EnS WHO FOUGHT At GETTYS-
BURG ~ CALLED TO HIS REST.
WAS ~ YEARS OLD.
LEO TURBULENT LIFE
fOk A Decade HE WAS A FIGHT
Ek BY PROFESSION. AND ALL
HIS LIFE HE WAS A FIGHTER
Bl NATURE.
(By Associated Prcss).

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New York. May i.-GcncMl Daniel T..
ssckieS the last of the great command
ers who fought nj the battle Of Gettys-
burg. died here last night nj the age "a
~. For a decade ne was n fighter lr
profession. All his life he was 4 fight
or by nature.
y gfuff old warrior. with ore log
shot away in battle. his massive head
resembling Eismarck's. was a pic
turcssric figure A. he hobblci along en
Srmtches during the last half century ~
his turbulent life.
His Uncomfortable fighting spirit re-.
manned Ia the last. Born in View York
city In lS25. Sicklcs. at the age Of -
fought the Wings ne u Dcmocrat in the
New York Legislature. At ~ he dis
played his fighting spirit as corporatiosi
attorney of New York. II was he who
secured the city its great Central PARK.
AT this time his military career began
tional Guard. New York.
Before he was - years old Major
Sickles had served as secretary of leea
ton mt London under MiniSfos' James
Bucaasan: he had won a State senator
ship through a bitter campaign: and he
was seated in The Thirty-fifih Congress
mt Washington.
IL was M this time that IN event oc-
CURED which became the sensation az
the day. Sicklcs had begun his second
term as Congressman in l>.0 when the
national capital was stirred by the
news that the young representative frosn
New York had shot and killed Philip
Barton Key. the United States district
attorney for the District of Columbia.
Sicklcs declared that Key had miSlel
Mrs. Sickles. who was TicrcSc %sagioli.
daughter Of IN Italian music teacher.
The trial lastcd twenty DAYS. cndin. in
the acqnital Of Sicklcs III the ground ~
"uswfittcn law" Tie then took his err
ing wife back.
y ana not aware of amy statute or
code Of morals said Sickl~s 70 has
critics. which makes il Infamous IL
forgive "A woman. ] can now sec nl The
alm0si universal d%cnuHciati-s with
which she il followed Ia my threShoid.
the misery and peril from which | have
rescued the mother u my daughter. |
shall strive la pr.vc Ia all that an err
ing wife AMI mother may he forgiven
and redeemed"
Mrs. Sickles died of Il broken heart
q few years later.
Al the outbreak of the civil war. the
young fighting politician. then Nj years
old. went Ia Lincoln Ia offer his s,SyiceS
-You have been a leader ia New York
Democratic politics said the President.
If You keep your csd up al that game
surely you'll Ia Ia take command Of
nHn in the field. Raise your regiments
and yon shall h. ~brieadicr general 10
coHamand.'
"Sickles raised The famous Excelsior
brigade in New York. taking command
~ cnc of its regiments as colonel. lin
coin kept his work and in 1861 raised
! him Ia brigadicr general. His fighting
, spirit early won him his spurs. Tn the
Peninsula and NJ Antictam he dis
Gnguishel himself as II S,Idicr aud lead.
n. Al Charlottesville he lead a di,i-
Don. At Gettysburg he led the Third
6Drps. lost q leg and became n 0ational
hero. At 20 years Of age no had risen
frem n colosael 10 u mapor general Of
volunteers.
After the war his fighting spirit LODI
HIM into the regular army a9d he he