Thomas Keneally talks about his new book examining the life of the rakish congressman who beat a murder rap after killing his wife's lover -- then went on to gain fame (and lose a leg) as a Civil War ...
On this day in 1819, Rep. Daniel Sickles, who gunned down his wife’s lover in Lafayette Square and then became the first person in the United States to be acquitted of a murder charge on the grounds ...
Whatever else he did in his 88 flamboyant years, Daniel Edgar Sickles will be remembered for the way his troops were disposed on unprotected ground at the Battle of Gettysburg, and for the fact that ...
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DAN SICKLES — Edgcumb Pinchon —Doubleday, Doran ($3.50). In the winter of 1859, Washington was rocked by the greatest scandal in its history. Negroes living on slovenly West 15th Street reported that ...