Daniel Edgar Sickles Papers 1821-1918

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Daniel Edgar Sickles Papers 1821-1918

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United States Army officer, United States representative from New York and diplomat. Correspondence, speeches, documents, legal and financial papers, clippings, and printed matter, including drafts of reports to the secretary of state while Sickles was serving as minister to Spain (1869-1873) relating, in part, to the Cuban Insurrection and to the affair. Other topics include service as chairman (1868-1912) of the New York Monuments Commission for the Battlefields of Gettysburg and Chattanooga and as a member of the House of Representatives in the 53rd Congress. Virginius

1,100 items; 5 containers; 2 linear feet; 8 microfilm reels

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Library of Congress. Manuscript Division

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Library of Congress. Manuscript Division

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