Essential Civil War Curriculum | James A. Hessler, Daniel E. Sickles | August 2013
Daniel E. Sickles
By James A. Hessler, Gettysburg National Military Park
Resources
If you can read only one book
Author
Hessler, James A.
Title. City: Publisher, Year.
Sickles at Gettysburg: The Controversial
Civil War General Who Committed Murder,
Abandoned Little Round Top, and Declared
Himself the Hero of Gettysburg. El Dorado
Hills, CA: Savas Beatie, 2009.
Books
Author
Brandt, Nat
De Fontaine, Felix G.
Hessler, James A.
———.
Hyde, Bill, ed.
Imhof, John D.
Title. City: Publisher, Year.
The Congressman Who Got Away with
Murder. New York: Syracuse University
Press, 1991.
Trial of the Hon. Daniel E. Sickles for
Shooting Philip Barton Key, Esq., U.S.
District Attorney, of Washington, D.C.,
February 27th, 1859. New York: R.M.
DeWitt, 1859.
“Sickles Returns.” Gettysburg Magazine 34
(January 2006): 64-85.
“Blowing Smoke,” America’s Civil War,
no.3 (July 2009): 46-53.
The Union Generals Speak: The Meade
Hearings on the Battle of Gettysburg. Baton
Rouge: Louisiana State University Press,
2003.
Gettysburg Day Two: A Study in Maps.
Baltimore: Butternut & Blue, 1999.
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Pfanz, Harry W.
Swanberg, W.A.
Gettysburg: The Second Day. Chapel Hill:
The University of North Carolina Press,
1987.
Sickles The Incredible. New York: Charles
Scribner’s Sons, 1956.
Organizations
Web Resources
URL
http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/dsickles.
htm
http://sicklesatgettysburg.com/Sickles_Bio
graphy.html
http://www.gettysburgdaily.com/?page_id=
3598
Name and description
The Arlington National Cemetery website
includes articles and photographs relating to
Daniel Sickles.
This website supports Jim Hessler’s book
Sickles at Gettysburg and includes a brief
biography and relevant photographs on this
page.
This website gives details about Jim
Hessler’s Gettysburg battlefield tour of
historic sites related to General Sickles.
Other Sources
Name
Daniel Edgar Sickles Papers 1821-1918
Description, Contact information including
address, email
The Library of Congress holds the Daniel
Edgar Sickles papers in the Manuscript
Division.
The
finding
aid
is
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011120
The papers are open to research and can be
accessed at the Library of Congress
Manuscript Reading Room. Researchers are
advised to contact them in advance. The
Manuscript Reading Room is located at 101
Independence Ave. SE, Room LM 101,
James
Madison
Memorial
Building,
Washington, D.C. 20540-4690, (202) 7077791, Monday –Saturday 8:30 a.m.- 5:00
p.m.
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Scholars
Name
Jim Hessler
Email
[email protected]
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