The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-05-04
Last of Great Commanders at
Battle of Gettysburg Dies In
His New York Home
MILITARY FUNERAL PLANNED
Domestic Troubles Early and Late
in His Career Made His
Life Unhappy

New York, May 4.--While arrange
said that Daniel T.. Sickles, the last ci
the brigade commanders of the civil
war. who died last night, will be buried
with military honors, probably in Ar
lington.
Sickles' wife, from whom he had
separated years ago. was at his bed
side when he died.
General Daniel Edgar Sickles was
the last of the great commanders who
fought the battle of Gettysburg. For IA
decade he was a fighter by profession
all his life he was "A fighter by ma
tuIe.
The gruff old warrior, with one leg
shot away in battle, his massive head
resembling Bismarcks. was a pic
turesque figure as he hobbled along on
crutches during the last half century
of his turbulent life.
His indomitable lighting spirit re-
manned to the last Born in Now York
City in 1925, Sickles, at the age of %,
fought the Wings as a Democrat in
the New York legislature. At 2S, he
displayed his fighting spirit as cor
poration attorney of New York. 1t was
he who secured for his city its great
Central Park. At this time his mill
tary career began as major OF the 18th
regiment, National Guard, New York.
Before he was 80 years old. Major
Slckles had served as secretary of le
CATION at London under Minister
james buchanan; he had won a state
senatorship through a bitter cam
paign; and he was seated in the Thir-
ty-hfth Congress at Washington.
Shot and Killed Attorney.
Il was at this time that an event oc-
cured which became the sensation Of
the day. Sickles had begun his second
term as congressman in 1859 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. Sickles declared that Key
had misled Mrs Sckles who was
Therese Bagioll, daughter of an Ital-
ian 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.
i am not aware of any statute or
code Of morals" said Sickles to his
critics, which makes il Infamous to
forgive a woman. | can now see in the
almost universal denunciation with
which She Is followed to my threshold
the misery and peril from which
nave rescued the mother of my dauSh
ter. ! shall strive to prove To all that
an erfing wife and mother may be for
given and redeemed"
Mrs Sickles died of a broken heart
a few years later.
offered Services to Lincoln.
AT the outbreak of the Civil War, the
young lighting politician, then 36 years
old, went To Lincoln to offer his serv
ices,
lOu have been a leader in New
YORK Democratic politics." said the
president. III you kept your end up
at mat game surely you'll do To take
command of men I'm the field. Raise
your regiments and you shall be Bri
sadler-General I'm command"
Slckles raised the famous Excelsior
brigade In New York, taking command
Vi one of it's regiments as colonel. Lin
'o'h Kept his word and in 1861 raised
him To Brigadier- General. His fight
ing spirit early won him his spurs. on
we peninsula and at Antetam he dis
,hsulshed himself as a soldier and
reader AT charlottesville he led a
uNsion. AT Gettysburg he led the
i"''u Corps, lost leg, and became n
"atlohal hero. At 81 years of age, he
"du risen from colonel to major
seheral OF volunteers.
After the war his fighting spirit led
"'m to the regular army, and he be-
eame first, brigader and then major
e'ne'ai' He continued active service
urtli 1863. when he was appointed