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See also:SICKLES, See also:DANIEL See also:EDGAR (1825– ) , See also:American soldier and diplomatist, was See also:born in New See also:York See also:City on the 20th of See also:October 1825. He learned the printer's See also:trade, studied in the university of the City of New York (now New York University), was admitted to the See also:bar in 1846, and was a member of the See also:state See also:Assembly in 1847. In 1853 he became See also:corporation counsel of
New York City, but resigned soon afterward to become secretary of the U.S. See also:legation in See also:London, under See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James See also:Buchanan. He returned to See also:America in 1855, was a member of the state See also:Senate in 1856–1857, and from 1857 to 1861 was a Democratic representative in See also:Congress. In 1859 he was tried on a See also:charge of See also:murder, having shot See also:- PHILIP
- PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
- PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
- PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
- PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)
Philip See also:Barton See also:Key, U.S. See also:attorney for the See also:District of See also:Columbia, whom Sickles had discovered to have a liaison with his wife; but was acquitted after a dramatic trial lasting twenty days. At the outbreak of the See also:Civil See also:War Sickles was active in raising See also:United States See also:volunteers in New York, and was appointed See also:colonel of a See also:regiment. He became a brigadier-See also:general of volunteers in See also:September 186,1, led a See also:brigade of the See also:Army of the See also:Potomac with See also:credit up to the See also:battle of See also:Antietam, and then succeeded to a divisional command. He took See also:part with distinction in the battle of Fredericksburg, and in 1863 as a See also:major-general commanded the III. army See also:corps. His See also:energy and ability were conspicuous in the disastrous battle of See also:Chancellorsville (q.v.); and at See also:Gettysburg (q.v.) the part played by the III. corps in the desperate fighting around the See also:Peach See also:Orchard was one of the most noteworthy incidents in the battle. Sickles himself lost a See also:leg and his active military career came to an end. He was, however, employed to the end of the war, and in 1867 received the breve.ts of brigadier-general U.S.A. and major-general U.S.A. for his services at Fredericksburg and Gettysburg respectively. General Sickles was one of the few successful volunteer generals who served on either See also:side. Soon after the See also:close of the Civil War he was sent on a confidential See also:mission to See also:Colombia to secure its compliance with a treaty agreement (of 1846) permitting the United States to convey troops across the See also:Isthmus of See also:Panama. In 1866–1867 he commanded the See also:department of the Carolinas. In 1866 he was appointed colonel of the 42nd See also:infantry (See also:Veteran Reserve Corps), and in 1869 he was retired with the See also:rank of major-general. He was See also:minister to See also:Spain from 1869 to 1873, and took part in the negotiations growing out of the " Virginius Affair " (see See also:SANTIAGO, See also:CUBA). General Sickles was See also:president of the New York State See also:Board of Civil Service Commissioners in 1888–1889, was See also:sheriff of New York in 1890, and was again a representative in Congress in 1893–1895.
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