The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1914-05-08
GEN, SICkLES
PASSES AWAY
Hero of Gettysburg Surren-
r. ders at Last.
He and Wife Reconciled After
30 Years Sepa-
"- ration.

New York, May 3.-AIaj. Gen. Dan
lei Z. Sickles died at his home to-
night at 8 o'clock. His wife was at
the bedside. geo.
The couple had been separated
nearly thirty years, and a reconcil-
iation was effected only last night.
Gen. Sickles had been ill since
March, when he suffered a hemor-
rhage. A week ago last Thursday
there was another hemorrhage and
the aged general was confined to
his bed. .....
This morning there was marked
improvement in the generals condi-
ton, but at O'Clock in the after
noon he began to sink. Three hours
later it was apparent that Death
was near. The last rites of the
Roman Catholic Church had been adj
ministered on Saturday by Rev. Faith
er Award of st. Joseph's Church.
" Gen. Sickles started life as :, a
printers boy, became a lawyer, form
cd five regiments for the civil war
and earned. a soldiers immoieh Atty
on the second day Of the battle at
Gettysburg, when he held back Long
streets columns of men in gray in
the charge on Peach Orchard and the
Blotily Angle. '"f.a '-m a. F.;-
That engagement was only one ep-
isolde of a long life filled with ex-
element, adventure and tragedy.
On Sunday, in February, 1s5s,when
Gen. Sickles was a congressman, he
shot dead In the streets of Washing
ton. Philip Barton Key, son of the
author of "The Star-Spangled Ban
ner." Sickles charged that Key had
his home.
Found not guiES by jury at his
trial for murder. Sickles forgave his
wife. and they lived together until
her death some years later. After
that came the war, and after the war
Gen. Sickles went from military con-
maAds to a diplomatic career.
He served as minister to Holland
from 1866 to 1869. He declined the
to Mexico and served
four years, ending in 1873, as min
lister to Spain. w''
It was at Madrid that he met and
the present Mrs. Sickaes.
who was Caroline Martinez Guerre-
70. daughter Of a Spanish officer.
There were two children, Edna. who
as married to Dayrell E. M. Cracken-'
thorpe. AND George Stanon Sickles.
When Gen. Sjckles returned to this
country his second wife accompanied
him, but she soon departed and re-
turned to Madrid. where she lived
until 1908. 9tt
In 1908 Mrs. Sickles came to New
York again and took up her resi-
ience in the house at East Ninth
street. just back of her husbands
Fifth avenue home.
The generals money troubles have
been the thing that has kept him
most in the public eye since he pass
ID S0.-In September, 1912, Mrs.
3ickles pawned her jewels 900
worth--to raise S.O66 with which to
pay a Judgment hanging over the
generals head. Her act came just
n CINE to stop a forced sale of fur
liture, keepsakes and her husbands
,ivil war commissions signed by
Abraham Lincoln.
In December, 1912, the general was
involved in a dispute with the Sta.e
# New York over a $4,000 short
lge in the money OF the Monument
of which Gen. Sbckles
vas chairman. Attorney General
thpestened to prosecute the
reteran, and hts ellow-conmission-
rs and Mns. sickles again stepped
onward with an offer to make good
he sum il no other way was found. |
he general himself had no money TO
nees the shortage. d was said, and
10 prosecution was urliertaken.
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