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

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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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Hessler, James A.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Savas Beatie, ©2010.
Edition:1st paperback ed.
Subjects:
Sickles, Daniel Edgar, > 1819-1914 > Military leadership.
Sickles, Daniel Edgar, > 1819-1914.
Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863.
Generals > United States > Biography.
Generals.
Command of troops.
Pennsylvania > Gettysburg.
United States.
Biographies.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.
  • 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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