The Civil War General Involved in Numerous Scandals: Dan Sickles

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So what were going talk about tonight is Dan sickles and old Dan sickles.

If you don't know anything about Dan sickles urine for heckuva run in this distant if they justifies description this truly gnosis out of the straight of a movie or some so uncle Dan is born on October 19, 1819 in New York City. He attended New York University and study law under none other than the future.

Union Gen. Benjamin F. Butler's early years were marked already with graft. He was accused of stealing money from another man embezzled money meant for political pamphlet and he was accused of mortgage fraud. The connections made though through Butler open the new world that Dan sickles and that new world with politics. He quickly moved up the graft plague. Tammany Hall political machine which he literally had to fight in different points with knife and gun and so forth. And he became the corporation counsel to the city at age 28, despite all those things in his background. He later wrote that political machine to be a New York state senator from 1856 to 1857, and he served in Congress from 1857. The 1861. Needless to say, what little I've told you so far ought to give you an indication of what type person.

He is Dan sickles is impulsive.

He is a moral. He does not wait on the whims of society, whether he should be doing something or not.

And he definitely does not pay attention to laws as a lawyer once famously told me Matt, you cannot change the law, but you can certainly change the facts and Dan sickles is going to be very good at that right there. Sickles lived a fast life. He went through the equivalent of several fortunes, and I mean fortunes by today's standards millions of dollars in the 1800s. He blew through all that. And, of course, on the other side of it. A lot of that money. He also had a passionate side for the ladies.

Her name was Teresa Bagley. He had met her while she was a little girl and he was studying law at the home of her parents. When now she had grown up.

They were married by the mayor of New York, but what does sickles do. He was married and I think he truly loved this lady. I believe he did. But sickles it was just a formality to them is going to be on the move he would become the American and this is really on the movie, you become the American legation Sec. to James McCann and that the Court of St. James in January 1853 as the year after he got married, but this is what Dan sickles plays well okay this is what Dan sickles plays well on July 4 of 1854 sickles touchy sense of patriotism bowled over when native Bostonian George Peabody gave a dinner to celebrate Anglo-American relations. Sickles did not like celebrating 4 July work with foreigners and when he arrived at the party. He found 150 guest mostly Englishmen. There were two life-size portraits.

There one of Queen Victoria and the King and at the end of the room with only a small portrait on the opposite end of George Washington and to top it all off, the toast of Washington would be given by an Englishman. The program for the evening. Had the Star-Spangled Banner and hell Columbia lyrics with all negative references to England removed and after the speech with Dan sickles sitting there. It came time for the toast is the way they used to do hundred and 50 people rose and then when they said they would place the right foot upon their chair and then somebody would say to the Queen and everybody would echo that and drink a toast out of 150 people hundred and 49 stood up, except for Daniel E. Sickles sickles is going to basically get kicked out England for that because it's going to cause a royal mess because he's insulted the Queen but did he do that because he really felt that strongly about the night's activities.

The program or was it a political calculation because when he made it back to New York. What did America think of him. Anybody that tweak the nose of John bull was a hero. Sickles is not finished. Sickles loved society.

He loved public life and he loved both official and unofficial business.

He had made the acquaintance of a gentleman named Philip Barton keep Philip Barton key who's on the left, right, there was the district attorney of of the District of Columbia and the son of Francis Scott Key now was sickles blessing keys started. Sickles knows about this key started to escort Teresa.

The various social functions and key was described as one of the most handsomest man in Washington and of course was sickles not being around an absentee husband.

It didn't take long for romance to blossom between these two sickles wife and Mr. keys. The key was known as a poor lawyer and sickles interceded on his behalf and saved his job as a congressman, a rumor came to sickles about the affair and he confronted key with it, only to have it denied to his face. You know what sickles did. He believed by this time was sickles being gone so much the affair got so serious that key obtained a rental house a few blocks from the sickles home in Lafayette Square right across the street from the White House neighbors began to see an elegant couple enter and leave the dwelling. The two also had signals. One example is key would walk in front of the of the sickles resident swinging a handkerchief as a signal for rendezvous. He was sometimes sit across the square with a pair of opera glasses and stare at the houses window looking for sign from Teresa on February 24, 1859. Everything came crashing down.

Sickles received an anonymous note saying that an affair was going on two days later he extracted a written confession out of Teresa with all the tall gray details. Only a Southerner can pronounce the word tall gray unaware of what it happened the next day, February 27, three days after he received the note key approach the sickles home waving a handkerchief and sickles was upstairs and saw key down below quote that Bill and his just past my house, my God, this is horrible and sickles sent a friend outside to delay key while he went inside and concealed a revolver and to Derringer's in his coat and went after Philip Barton approaching key. He explained key you scoundrel you have dishonored my house. You must die. And with that key reached inside his coat pocket. Sickles fires the pistol and the shot grazes key key, then rushed forward and grabbed Dan and the two wrestled and sickles dropped the gun before breaking free from the wrestling match.

Sickles then produced another gun from his pocket and key reaching inside his coat retrieve some opera glasses and flung them at sickles, exclaiming, murder, murder, don't shoot sickles pull the trigger and the shot hit key right below the growing he fell to the pavement and you been listening to the story of Dan sickles being told by Matt Atkinson was a Ranger of the Gettysburg national Park and when we come back we can find it. What happens then sickles trial dear on our American shores attention Medicare beneficiaries are you getting all the benefits you need. If you have Medicare you may now be able to get new benefits. Benefits may include eyeglasses, wellness visits, gym membership, meal delivery and hearing aids with low co-pay. You may even find plans with zero monthly plan premiums zero co-pays on many services and zero deductible.

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Then sickles only last left off. Sickles had shot and killed his wife's quarter. Philip Barton is just the son of Francis Scott was about to be placed on trial. That is Gettysburg National military Ranger that Atkinson's return to the store. Sickles will be placed in the DC jail he will never stay in a sale he will actually stay in the jailer's quarters.

It will be arguably I mean, at least for that for this region of the country the most sensational trial of the century. During the midst of this of this trial by jury. None other than Pres. Buchanan is going to come in and shake sickles hand in front of the jury what is that tell the jury means he supports and sickles will have the dream team defense lawyers for the first time they will argue to the jury that sickles suffered from temporary insanity and for the first time in American jurisprudence history. Sickles will successfully use the defense of temporary insanity.

In other words, sickles walks right out of their got away with murder.

Of course society give what they condoned what sickles had done this justifiable homicide key should not of been doing that they condemn sickles when he took his wife that that's when sickles gets booted from Congress, probably Dan. As I said earlier, probably did really love her and what did he have to say about fidelity sickles political career is basically over. Although he still has Tammany Hall behind but sickles once again right place right time. The war breaks out, then sickles comes from which party Democrat what party does Abraham Lincoln come from Republican every president of every war of any era is going to want bipartisan support.

Because of that sickles is going to be one of the first Democrats to come out in favor of a Republican war and you know what else. Dan does he backs up his patriotism with his own money and he raises not a regimen of troops, but a whole brigade and Lincoln embraces both things the support for the war and him being a Democrat, and more importantly Dan sickles when he gets his Brig. Gen. commission becomes a general very early in the war that's going to go into his rise. September 3, 1861.

After he raises what will become known as the New York Excelsior brigade that he was promoted the fast forward a little bit here he was promoted to Maj. Gen. to rank from November 29, 1862. Sickles was assigned to core command that winter 6263. What you need to know is Fars us going in the Gettysburg pry one of the more famous stories from the battle of Gettysburg is actually the wounding of Dan sick.

Dan sickles is going to be back at the Trostle farm and he's going to be sitting astride his horse's gotta be a one in a million shot and you know when you're sitting in the saddle that when you laying down your sitting in the saddle you know your knees go out one in a million shot. Sickles is going to feel something warm is going to take his hand, he's gonna reach down to his leg and he is going to pull back something warm. What is that warm blood. A Confederate solid shot has come in and smashed her piece of shrapnel has come in and smashed his leg. You know the horse was unscathed.

This is what sickles wrote I never knew I was hit I was writing the lines. It was tremendously interested in the terrific fighting. I bet he would. Suddenly I was conscious of dampness along the lower part of my right leg and I ran my hand down the leg of my high top boots and pulling it out.

I was surprised to see it dripping with blood. Soon I noticed the leg would not perform its usual functions interesting. I lifted it carefully over my horses neck and slid to the ground. They found the knee had been smashed probably by a piece of shale and that the leg been broken above and also below the knee. But while all this damage had been done. I had not been unhorsed in the quote at first, age, wrapped a handkerchief around sickles leg.

Then a saddle strapless bra used as a tourniquet and sickles is carried off on a stretcher and at some point as all American generals do when the word went around that he was dead. Sickles had himself propped up on his shoulders and that lit cigar stuck into his mouth. And that's the way he left the battlefield, smoking a cigar later that evening his legs amputated on the farm located near the present-day shopping outlets on Baltimore Pike. Sickles will have the leg preserved in a cask of alcohol and brought with them being a politician and knowing the power and symbolism of a lost limb, he donated the leg to the Army medical Museum and yes you my fellow American taxpayers still own it. It is true that sickles did visit the leg on probably his first visit to the Army medical Museum, the curator was leading sickles on the tour when the general uttered. Oh yes yes but let us come to my leg when the curator led sickles to the exhibit the general retorted, where's my butt, what have you done with my foot.

They should have been shown to when the curator tried to explain that the foot was not really necessary for the exhibit sickles quote became very angry and anathematized the museum very freely. In October 1963.

Sickles is feeling much better and he met with his balls made of Fairfax Station, Virginia, and asked for his old command that Meade refused that after the war Gettysburg continue to be a passionate thing and sickles life.

He made an impassioned plea that the sacred battlefield be preserved in a valid and true sickles fashion to do something about it. In 1893 he won reelection to Congress at the age of 74 41 term two years. While there he pushed through with irresistible energy, a bill to preserve the land that made him famous, or infamous, as the case may be. Today sickles Avenue is actually the longest Avenue within the military part. I don't know if that was intentional, but I'm sure sickles would've agreed with all May 3, 1914.

Sickles is going to pass away in New York City. He was 94 years old. One thing was certain the Gettysburg event was the defining moment in Dan sickles life and alas Dan sickles, the general out of seven Union corps commanders, one of only two that does not have a monument here reportedly and this is up for debate. Reportedly, when Dan sickles was asked why he didn't have a statue on the battlefield. He retorted that is because the whole damn battlefield is my monument and great job as always to Monty for finding the story and a special thanks to Gettysburg National Park Service for allowing us to use this audio and what a storyteller Matt backspacing is by way that's a story you will not hear in your history class.

He was a scoundrel, but in the end what he did he raise the money for (G. Scoundrels and natives patriots and heroes. Sometimes it's hard to tell the difference in this case scoundrel doesn't sound very strange way become a hero story of Dan sickles dear unknown Americans just around the corner and all ratings of three kinds of material on a family-friendly sectional modern sofa outside and enjoying their conversation from the crescent overhaul usually has the essentials to make your home phone lunch, not fabulous in-store Ashley.com today attention Medicare beneficiaries are you getting all the benefits you need. If you have Medicare you may now be able to get new benefits.

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