2009-04
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 3/31/2009
SICKLES, Daniel (1825-1914). Union general, won the Medal of Honor for Gettysburg where he lost a leg. Prior to the war he was the first American ever acquitted of murder on grounds of temporary insanity after he shot Francis Scott Key's son for seducing his wife. Typed Letter Signed, "D. E. Sickles", 1p. 4to., New York [City], July 15, 1911, to the editor's of Miller's Photographic History of the Civil War, in part: "I am profoundly interested in your great work, - photographic history of the Civil War. It is a work that every American citizen with red blood…should own. It is the history of the greatest war ever fought, and now…is the psychological moment to publish it, and especially when you are able to put into the work that marvelous collection of photographs taken by Brady…I am informed…that you have also dug up…hundreds of Confederate scenes never before published…". Fine
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