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Daniel E. Sickles

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Daniel E. Sickles

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Auction Date:2010 Jul 14 @ 22:00 (UTC-5 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
Controversial and colorful American politician and military officer (1819–1914). After discovering his young wife was having an affair, Sickles shot the man, the son of Francis Scott Key, and managed to secure an acquittal with the then-novel defense of temporary insanity. During the Civil War, Sickles served as a general and lost his leg in a famous incident at the Battle of Gettysburg. ALS signed “Sickles,” one page, 5.5 x 8.5, Hotel Netherwood letterhead, October 5, 1901. Letter to General King. In part: “I shall be charmed to done at your house any day between the 20th & 30th, but on the 20th I have already booked several visits & hope you will let me add your name to the list which will be a stag party. I hope you will not try to bring me out for the Command of the Legion…I can wait, while younger men are impatient.” A uniform shade of toning, and Sickles’s closing and signature at the top of the first page over letterhead, otherwise fine condition.