Sickles at Gettysburg : the controversial Civil War general who committed murder, abandoned Little Round Top, and declared himself the hero of Gettysburg / James A. Hessler.

By 1863, Major General Daniel E. Sickles was notorious as a disgraced former Congressman who murdered his wife's lover on the streets of Washington. With his political career in ruins, Sickles used his connections with President Lincoln to obtain a prominent command in the Army of the Potomac&#...

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Main Author: Hessler, James A.
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Language:English
Published: New York : Savas Beatie, ©2010.
Edition:1st paperback ed.
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505 0 |a Contents -- Preface -- Murder! -- The Making of a First Class Soldier -- I Think it is a Retreat -- No One Ever Received a More Important Command -- The Third Corps Marches in the Right Direction -- In Some Doubt as to Where He Should Go -- No Relation to the General Line of Battle -- Isnâ€?t Your Line Too Much Extended? -- The “Keyâ€? of the Battleground -- Gross Neglect or Unaccountable Stupidity -- The Line Before You Must Be Broken -- Let Me Die on the Field -- He has Redeemed his Reputation Fully -- Subsequent Events Proved My Judgment Correct. 
505 8 |a My Only Motive is to Vindicate HistorySpoil a Rotten Egg -- Some Strange Perversion of History -- The Civil War is Only a Memory -- That Damn Fool Sickles -- Index. 
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