The Hawaiian gazette., 1914-05-05

wife was at the bedside
Gen. Daniel Edgar sickles was the
last, Of the great coinmanders who
fought the battle Of Gettysburg. Fof
a decade he was fighter by profes.
fiogprTall his life he. was 4 fighter. by
nature. -
The gruff old warrior, with one leg
shot away in battle, his massiye head
resembling Bismarck 3, was q pictu-
rescue figure as he hobbled along ON
efntehes during the last half century
OF his turbulent life.
His indomitable fighting spirit re.
manned to the last. Born in New York
City in 1895, Siekles, at The. age Of
twenty-five fought the Wings Is a
Democrat in the New York Legislature.
A. tYanty'eight he displayed his fight
ing spirit as corporation attorney Of
New York Il was he. who secured for
ms city its great Central Park At
this time his military career began aa
major Of the. Twelfth Regiment Ma.
tiQnal Guard, New York.
Before he was thirty.two years old
Major Siekles had served as secretary
OF legation at London under Minister
James Buchanan: he had won a State
senatOrship through bitter campaign;
and he WIS seated IN the thirtyffth
congress at Washington.
\ Rorgives, Bring wife.
4 II was al. this time that an event oe.
CURED which became the sensation Of
the day. Sickles' had begun his second,
term as congressman in 1859, when the
national capital was stirredby the news
that the young representative from
New York had shot and killed Philip
Barton Key, the United States dist. et,
attorney for the District Of Colnmb.a
Siclles declared that Key. had misled.
Mrs. Sickles, who was Theresa Papioli.
daughter, of an Italian, music teacher,
The trial lasted twenty days. ending
An thu aequittal Of Sielles on the
ground Of "uhwritten law. He then
took his, erring wife back.
II am not aware of any statute or
code Of morals, said Sickles TO his
critics, (which makes it Infamous to
forgive woman. / can now see in
the almost universal dennnciatIon with
which she, is followed to- my threshold.
the misery and peril from which have
resened the mother Of nv. danahterl
! shall strive TO prove to all that an.
erflng wife apde mother may. be for,
given and redeemed I" Mrs. Sickles
died Of broken heart q few years
later. $3.50
Organizes Famous Regiment.
At the ontb.eak, Of the, Civil War,
the young. fighting politician, then
thirty-six years old, went to Lincoln toI
offer his services.
49, Yon have been leader in New
York Democratic politics. said the
President If you kept your end up
ut that game surely you do to take
command Of men in the field. Raise
your regiments and yoa shall be brig
adler general in commando
siekles raised the fgmous Excelsior
Brigadeiin New York taking command
of one OF its regiments as colonel.
lincoln kept his wo,d and in 1861
raised him to bFigadier general. Hisl
fighting spirit early won him hisl
spurs On the Peninsula and at An.
tietah he distinguished himself as al
soldier and, leader. At Chancellors-
vile, he led q division. At 6ettys.
burg he led the Third Corps, lost leg, |
and became a national hero. At 37l
years Of age, he had risen from a coll
onel to, major general of volunteers.
After, the war his fighting spirit led
him in to the regular army, and he be,
came first, brigadier and then major
general He continued active service
until 1864, when he was appointed
Minister to Spain by President Grant
Estyanged. from Wife,
Az the eoprt Of Spain, siekles' yigor,
BUS personality made him dominat-
ng figure. Bonf years OF brilliant diplo
macy brApght him the epithet Of
The Yankee King Of SPAIN Here
ne contracted his. second marriage. with
he beautiful and distinguished Seno,
'itns Qfeagh. This, romance was follow. |
ID by enlargement which was TO last
more, than a. quarter century. In addi-
ion, to, this domestic trouble, came his
nterferenee in the marriage plans OF
his daughter to- a penniless Spanish
loblemRn, Father and daughter sepa-
ated IN bitterness, the latter to return
Q the United States to die without
econciliatiou,
Returning alone to New York, Gen
raj Siekies again entered politics. He
erved. as sheriff of New York and At
ixty-seven he was reelected to con, I
,ress, IN N
His last days were spent at 2s Fifth
venue, New York, surrounded by war
elies and attended by his faithful
legro servant. ,sfiEs I
Ii Deeembsf, 1919, General siclsles
anne into notoriety because of a short,
ge Of $2s, 746 IN the funds OF the New
lork monuments commission which
vas created by the, Legislature in 1895
nd Of which General Sickies served as
harmon. until removed, from the office
Vhen the shortage was discovered. Gen,
raj Sickles, who had lost his fortune,
laimed there had been no fraud, that h
TiYate and eowmissiop, fupds had sim,
'ly become entRngled aud that he would n
pake good the amount. This was done,
'QFtly Through the aid Of his wife from
Rllom, .he had long been estranged. The
ask Of raising the funds also in all
leahllre brought about a reconciliation
etween the aged, couple, II