The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1914-05-09
GEN. DAN E.S|CKLES
DEAD IN NEW YORK
FAMOUS OLD WARRIORS DEATH
DUE TO PARALYSIS AND
COMPLICATIONS.
LAST GETTYSBURG GENERAL
His Life Hal Been One of Turbulence
and He Was at All Times
Essentially a Fighter.
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New York.-General Daniel Edgar
Sickles died at his home shortly after
O'Clock Sunday night. His wife was
at his bedside at the end.
General Sickles' death was due to
cerebral hemorrhages and paralysis.
Besides Mrs. Sickles, their son, STAN
ton, and the generals negro servant,
who had attended him for years, were
at the bedside,
The Generals last illness began
April 80 when he was stricken with
cerebral hemorrhages.
The reconciliation between General
Sickles and his wife had been effected
more than a week before and on the
previous Sunday night the general and
Mrs. Sickles and Mrs. Denman, his
half sister, had dinner together.
General Sickles was the last of the
great commanders who fought the bat
tie of Gettysburg. For a decade he
was fighter by PROFESSIONAL his
life he was a fighter by nature.
His indomitable fighting spirit re-
manned to the last. Born in New York
city in 1925, Sickles, at the age of 22,
fought the Wings as Democrat in the
New York legislature. At %, he dis
played his fighting spirit as corpora
tion attorney for New York. 1t was he
who secured for his city its great Gen.
trail park. His military career be-
gan as major of the Twelfth regiment,
National Guard, New York.
Before he was 32 years old, Major
Sickles had served as secretary of le-
cation at London under Minister James
Buchanan he had won state senator
ship through a bitter campaign and
he was seated in the thirty-fifth Con-
gress at Washington.
1t 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 1854 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. Sickles, who was The
resa Bigili, daughter of an Italian mu-
sic teacher. The trial lasted 20 days,
ending in the acquittal of Sickles on
the ground of "unwrtten law" He
then took his erring wife back. Mrs.
Sickles died of broken heart a few
years later
At the outbreak Of the Civil war the
young fighting politician. then 36 years
old, offered his services to Lincoln.
Sickles raised the famous Excelsior
brigade in New York, taking command
of one of its regiments as colonel Lin.
coin in 1861 raised him to briagdier
general. On the peninsula and at An.
tietam he distinguished himself as a
soldier and leader At Chancellors.
vile he led a division. At Gettysburg
he led the Third corps, lost leg, and
became a national hero. At 81 years
Of age he had risen from a colonel to
major general.
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 1869, when he was appointed min
lister to Spain by President Grant.