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Sickles at Gettysburg

Author : James A. Hessler
Publisher : Savas Beatie
ISBN 13 : 1611210453
Total Pages : 505 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book Sickles at Gettysburg written by James A. Hessler and published by Savas Beatie. This book was released on 2009-06-25 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Sickles is as dividing a figure in Civil War history as there is. In his masterful work . . . Hessler . . . puts him out there with all his wrinkles” (Confederate Book Review). Winner of the Robert E. Lee Civil War Roundtable of Central New Jersey’s Bachelder-Coddington Literary Award Winner of the Gettysburg Civil War Roundtable’s Distinguished Book Award By licensed battlefield guide James Hessler, this is the most deeply-researched, full-length biography to appear on this remarkable American icon. No individual who fought at Gettysburg was more controversial, both personally and professionally, than Major General Daniel E. Sickles. By 1863, Sickles was notorious as a disgraced former Congressman who murdered his wife’s lover on the streets of Washington and used America’s first temporary insanity defense to escape justice. With his political career in ruins, Sickles used his connections with President Lincoln to obtain a prominent command in the Army of the Potomac’s 3rd Corps—despite having no military experience. At Gettysburg, he openly disobeyed orders in one of the most controversial decisions in military history. Hessler’s critically acclaimed biography is a balanced and entertaining account of Sickles colorful life. Civil War enthusiasts who want to understand General Sickles’ scandalous life, Gettysburg’s battlefield strategies, the in-fighting within the Army of the Potomac, and the development of today’s National Park will find Sickles at Gettysburg a must-read. “The few other Sickles biographies available will now take a back seat to Hessler’s powerful and evocative study of the man, the general, and the legacy of the Gettysburg battlefield that old Dan left America. I highly recommend this book.”—J. David Petruzzi, coauthor of Plenty of Blame to Go Around: Jeb Stuart’s Controversial Ride to Gettysburg

Sickles the Incredible

Author : W. A. Swanber
Publisher : Butternut & Blue
ISBN 13 : 9781879664029
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Sickles the Incredible written by W. A. Swanber and published by Butternut & Blue. This book was released on 1991-06-01 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: -- A problem child for all his 94 years. -- A Tammany politician so involved with women that he worried even Tammany. -- A diplomat who insulted Queen Victoria. -- A presidential aspirant, then a killer tried for murder. -- The general who won (or almost lost) the battle of Gettysburg. -- The soldier who laid away his lost leg in a coffin. -- The butt of the most vicious abuse in American newspaper history. -- The Yankee ambassador who took over Spain, carried on an affair with the deposed Queen Isabella, finally lost his own political shirt. -- The genius who smashed Jay Gould's railroad conspiracy. -- The millionaire who went broke on women and Wall Street. -- The adventurer who was often wrong, often right, but never dull.

Dan Sickles

Author : Edgcumb Pinchon
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1787208206
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (872 download)

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Download or read book Dan Sickles written by Edgcumb Pinchon and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-12 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This incredible tale of dashing Dan Sickles (1819-1914)—Civil War general, lover of the Queen of Spain, avenging husband who killed his wife’s paramour—has all the action and romance of a novel. It provides the first full-length portrait of a colorful American figure who loved to play the hero, and often was one. Here’s how the story of Dan Sickles begins: “WHEN HE FIRST OPENED HIS EYES in a modest New York home October 20, 1819, the skyscape beyond the Battery was fretted with the spars of hundreds of tall sailing ships. President Monroe was in the White House, Queen Victoria-to-be still in the nursery.... “When, May 3, 1914, those eyes—keen, gray, recalcitrant—closed for the last time, a stupendous one-hundred-year cycle almost had run its course. Woodrow Wilson was busying himself with the New Freedom at home, the Familyhood of Nations abroad. George V and Wilhelm Hohenzollern were exchanging cousinly notes. British dreadnaughts nosed unobtrusively toward Scapa Flow. German cruisers clotted at Kiel.... “Ninety-four years of America’s turgid adolescence! And some fifty of them spent in the thick of national affairs.... “Down the roaring decades that blent a score of polyglot peoples to a new breed, thrust Mexico across the Rio Grande and Colorado, Canada beyond the Columbia, the West out to mid-Pacific, his was a stormy, dramatic figure in Congress, on the battlefield, at the courts of Madrid and St. James’s, in the palacios nacionales of Colombia, Panama, Peru....”

American Scoundrel

Author : Thomas Keneally
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0385722257
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (857 download)

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Download or read book American Scoundrel written by Thomas Keneally and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2003-05-13 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hero, adulterer, bon vivant, murderer and rogue, Dan Sickles led the kind of existence that was indeed stranger than fiction. Throughout his life he exhibited the kind of exuberant charm and lack of scruple that wins friends, seduces women, and gets people killed. In American Scoundrel Thomas Keneally, the acclaimed author of Schindler’s List, creates a biography that is as lively and engrossing as its subject. Dan Sickles was a member of Congress, led a controversial charge at Gettysburg, and had an affair with the deposed Queen of Spain—among many other women. But the most startling of his many exploits was his murder of Philip Barton Key (son of Francis Scott Key), the lover of his long-suffering and neglected wife, Teresa. The affair, the crime, and the trial contained all the ingredients of melodrama needed to ensure that it was the scandal of the age. At the trial’s end, Sickles was acquitted and hardly chastened. His life, in which outrage and accomplishment had equal force, is a compelling American tale, told with the skill of a master narrative.

Daniel Sickles: A Life

Author : Garry Boulard
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1532088442
Total Pages : 918 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Daniel Sickles: A Life written by Garry Boulard and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 918 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The name Daniel Sickles and the word controversy are synonymous. Any student of 19th century American political history is familiar with Sickles’ 1859 murder of Philip Barton Key, the son of Francis Scott Key, who had seduced Sickles’ young wife. That murder, because Sickles was at the time a New York Congressman and Key a district attorney for Washington, captured the country’s imagination, a front-page event that inevitably ensnarled President James Buchanan, a close Sickles friend, inviting in the process explorations of what was seen as a sordid Washington society of the late 1850s. Civil War historians know Sickles as the General who led the men of the Union’s III Corps out onto the exposed expanse of the Peach Orchard at Gettysburg, a decision many scholars have regarded as disastrous, and one that nearly led to an overall Union defeat at the famous battlefield, while losing for Sickles his right leg from Confederate shelling. But these two singular, if spectacular events, in a very real sense represent only two days out of an extraordinary lifetime of 94 years. The rest of Sickles’ career was made up of his rise as a young stalwart of New York’s notorious Tammany Hall; his two terms in Congress leading up to the Civil War; his contentious service as a military governor of the Carolinas after the War; his newsworthy tenure as U.S. Minister to Spain in the late 1860s and early 70s; and even his stint, at the age of 70, as the sheriff of the county encompassing New York City. Beyond the headlines were Sickles’ relationships with presidents ranging from Franklin Pierce to Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant, not to mention an improbable friendship with Theodore Roosevelt at the turn of the century. Daniel Sickles: A Life is the first full-length published treatment looking in depth at the entirely of one man’s almost unbelievably colorful and contentious career. Garry Boulard is the author of The Expatriation of Franklin Pierce—The Story of a President and the Civil War (iUniverse, 2006), and The Worst President—The Story of James Buchanan (iUniverse, 2015). Boulard’s essays and reviews have appeared in the Journal of Southern History, Journal of Ethnic Studies, Louisiana History, Journal of Mississippi History, and Florida Historical Quarterly, among many other publications.

Sickles the Incredible

Author : William Andrew Swanberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Sickles the Incredible written by William Andrew Swanberg and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life of a Civil War general, congressman tried for murder, friend of five Presidents, diplomat, spendthrift, and libertine - one of the gaudiest of American figures.

Defending the Union Left Flank

Author : B. Thomas Kopac
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781608131808
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Defending the Union Left Flank written by B. Thomas Kopac and published by . This book was released on 2009-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Battle of Gettysburg continues to capture the interest of people. The magnitude and scale of the battle draws thousands of visitors to the National Military Park each year. The area of greatest interest is the Union left flank. Devilas Den, the Wheatfield, and Little Round Top are some of the most highly visited areas of that hallowed ground. It was here that the fiercest fighting took place. Defense of this area was given to General Dan Sickles. Sickles failed to follow orders and committed one of the greatest blunders of the war. Failure to secure Little Round Top was a costly error for the Army of the Potomac. Separating his corps from the army and creating a vulnerable salient, Sickles almost lost the Battle of Gettysburg. This book is an in-depth look at the life and military career of this highly controversial general and his actions at the Battle of Gettysburg.

Dan Sickles

Author : Edgcumb Pinchon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Dan Sickles written by Edgcumb Pinchon and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

American Scoundrel

Author : Tom Keneally
Publisher : Random House Australia
ISBN 13 : 1742749844
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (427 download)

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Download or read book American Scoundrel written by Tom Keneally and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Murder, Love and politics in Civil War America. On the last, cold Sunday of February 1859, Daniel Sickles shot his wife's lover in Washington's Lafayette Square, just across from the White House ... this is the story of that killing and its repercussions. Charming and ambitious, Dan Sickles literally got away with murder. His protector was none other than the President himself, the ageing James Buchanan; his political friends quickly gathered round; and Sickles was acquitted. His trial is described with all Thomas Keneally's powers of dash and drama, against a backdrop of double-dealing, intrigue and 'the slavery question'. Enslaved, in her turn, by the hypocrisy of nineteenth-century society, his wife was shunned and thereafter banned from public life. Sickles, meanwhile, was free to accept favours and patronage. He raised a regiment for the Union, and went on to become a general in the army, rising to the rank of brigadier-general and commanding a flank at the Battle of Gettysburg - at which he lost a leg, which he put into the military museum in Washington where he would take friends to visit it. Thomas Keneally brilliantly recreates an extraordinary period, when women were punished for violating codes of society that did not bind men. And the caddish, good-looking Dan Sickles personifies the extremes of the era: as a womaniser, he introduced his favourite madam to Queen Victoria while his wife stayed at home; as minister to Spain, he began an affair with the queen while courting one of her ladies in waiting; and in his later years, he installed his housekeeper as his mistress while his second wife took up residence nearby. The brio with which Thomas Keneally tells the tale is equal to the pace and bravado of Sickles's life. But, more than this, American Scoundrel is the lens through which the reader can view history at a time when America was being torn apart. This book resonates with uncomfortable truths, as relevant now as they were then.

Star Spangled Scandal

Author : Chris DeRose
Publisher : Regnery History
ISBN 13 : 1621578054
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (215 download)

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Download or read book Star Spangled Scandal written by Chris DeRose and published by Regnery History. This book was released on 2019-06-25 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A HISTORY BOOK CLUB BESTSELLER "True crime fans will relish this thoughtful look at a murder and its aftermath that riveted a nation." — Publisher's Weekly book review "There may be no two more addicting topics to people right now than politics and true crime. Star Spangled Scandal delves into both of these—with a heavy dose of sex added in." — NPR book review “… and sir I do assure you he has as much the use of your wife as you have.” — From an anonymous note delivered to Congressman Daniel Sickles on February 24, 1859 It is two years before the Civil War, and Congressman Daniel Sickles and his lovely wife Teresa are popular fixtures in Washington, D.C. society. Their house sits on Lafayette Square across from White House grounds, and the president himself is godfather to the Sickles’ six-year-old daughter. Because Congressman Sickles is frequently out of town, he trusts his friend, U.S. Attorney Philip Barton Key—son of Francis Scott Key—to escort the beautiful Mrs. Sickles to parties in his absence. Revelers in D.C. are accustomed to the sight of the congressman’s wife with the tall, Apollo-like Philip Barton Key, who is considered “the handsomest man in all Washington society… foremost among the popular men of the capital.” Then one day an anonymous note sets into motion a tragic course of events that culminates in a shocking murder in broad daylight in Lafayette Square. This is the riveting true story of the murder and trial that sparked a national debate on madness, male honor, female virtue, fidelity, and the rule of law. Bestselling author Chris DeRose (The Presidents’ War) uses diary entries, letters, newspaper accounts, and eyewitness testimonies to bring the characters to thrilling life in this antebellum true crime history.

DAN SICKLES

Author : EDGCUMB. PINCHON
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781033374269
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book DAN SICKLES written by EDGCUMB. PINCHON and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

An Audacious Myth

Author : William R. Sutton
Publisher : Gatekeeper Press
ISBN 13 : 166294442X
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (629 download)

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Download or read book An Audacious Myth written by William R. Sutton and published by Gatekeeper Press. This book was released on 2023-11-20 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Audacious Myth: The Personal Memoirs of Major General Daniel Edgar Sickles is a fictional first-person account of the real-life Civil War Union General Dan Sickles and his controversial actions at the Battle of Gettysburg. An Audacious Myth chronicles Sickles’s rise from a self-centered operative of New York's infamous Tammany Hall to the rank of Major General. His scandal-ridden life included owning a brothel with his lover Fanny White, marrying the teen daughter of his best friends, and gunning down his wife’s lover in front of the White House. He was the first American to be found not guilty by reason of temporary insanity. Sickles’s time after the war was devoted to creating a narrative that put him at the center of heroics at Gettysburg. His efforts won him the Medal of Honor thirty-five years after the battle. Did he save the Union and deserve the medal? Was there a twisted divine intervention that guided him at Gettysburg? We view the man through his own eyes and decide for ourselves.

Dan Sickles

Author : Edgcumb Pinchon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781258852535
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (525 download)

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Download or read book Dan Sickles written by Edgcumb Pinchon and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1945 edition.

Dan Sickles

Author : Edgcumb Pinchon
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780259860402
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Dan Sickles written by Edgcumb Pinchon and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-05-21 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Dan Sickles: Hero of Gettysburg and "Yankee King of Spain" General on Crutches Mysterious Mission Struggling With Chaos The Yankee King Of Spain Le Mariage de Convenance An Everlasting Stain. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Dan Sickles, Hero of Gettysburg and Yankee King of Spain,

Author : Edgcumb 1883- Pinchon
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781014303219
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Dan Sickles, Hero of Gettysburg and Yankee King of Spain, written by Edgcumb 1883- Pinchon and published by Hassell Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Gettysburg's Peach Orchard

Author : James A. Hessler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781611216752
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (167 download)

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Download or read book Gettysburg's Peach Orchard written by James A. Hessler and published by . This book was released on 2023-03-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most influential actions of the second day of battle at Gettysburg occurred nearly one mile west of Little Round Top in farmer Joseph Sherfy's peach orchard. Hessler and Isenberg combine the military aspects of the fighting with human interest stories in a balanced treatment of the bloody attack and defense of Gettysburg's Peach Orchard.

Darkness at Chancellorsville

Author : Ralph Peters
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1466884037
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Darkness at Chancellorsville written by Ralph Peters and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2019-05-21 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ralph Peters' Darkness at Chancellorsville is a novel of one of the most dramatic battles in American history, from the New York Times bestselling, three-time Boyd Award-winning author of the Battle Hymn Cycle. Centered upon one of the most surprising and dramatic battles in American history, Darkness at Chancellorsville recreates what began as a brilliant, triumphant campaign for the Union—only to end in disaster for the North. Famed Confederate Generals Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson bring off an against-all-odds surprise victory, humiliating a Yankee force three times the size of their own, while the Northern army is torn by rivalries, anti-immigrant prejudice and selfish ambition. This historically accurate epic captures the high drama, human complexity and existential threat that nearly tore the United States in two, featuring a broad range of fascinating—and real—characters, in blue and gray, who sum to an untold story about a battle that has attained mythic proportions. And, in the end, the Confederate triumph proved a Pyrrhic victory, since it lured Lee to embark on what would become the war's turning point—the Gettysburg Campaign (featured in Cain At Gettysburg). At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.