Daniel Edgar Sickles papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1100
Subjects: Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863; United States. Congress 1893-1895). House; United States; New York (State). Monuments Commission for the Battlefields of Gettysburg and Chattanooga; History; Correspondence; Monuments; Virginius (Steamer); Chattanooga, Battle of, Chattanooga, Tenn., 1863; New York (State); Foreign relations
Description: Correspondence, speeches, documents, legal and financial records, clippings, printed matter, and other papers.  Includes drafts of reports to the U.S. secretary of state while Sickles was serving as U.S. minister to Spain (1869-1873) relating, in part, to the Cuban Insurrection (1868-1878) and the Virginius affair.  Other topics include Sickles's service as U.S. representative in the 53rd Congress and as chairman (1886-1912) of the New York (State) Monuments Commission for the Battlefields of Gettysburg and Chattanooga.  Correspondents include Sickles's son, George Stanton Sickles; his father, George Garrett Sickles; William McKinley; Theodore Roosevelt; and Elihu Root.
Notes: Open to research.

Microfilm edition available, no. 18,173.

Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1981.

Purchase and gift, 1900-1971.

U.S. Army officer, U.S. representative from New York, and diplomat.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division and on Internet.