Thomas M. Aldrich papers, 1911-1913 [manuscript].

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Thomas M. Aldrich papers, 1911-1913 [manuscript].

Recollections, 25 p., typescript, by Aldrich of his Civil War service in the 1st Rhode Island Light Artillery, with a focus on the career of Gen. Daniel Edgar Sickles, and two manuscript diagrams of the battle of Gettysburg, perhaps drawn by Aldrich in 1911.

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Sickles, Daniel Edgar, 1819-1914

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In 1819, Sickles was born in New York City to Susan Marsh Sickles and George Garrett Sickles, a patent lawyer and politician. (His year of birth is sometimes given as 1825, and Sickles was known to have claimed as such. Historians speculate that Sickles chose to appear younger when he married a woman half his age.) He learned the printer's trade and studied at the University of the City of New York (now New York University). He studied law in the office of Benjamin Butler, was admitted to the ba...

Aldrich, Thomas M

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Thomas M. Aldrich served in the 1st Rhode Island Light Artillery, United States Army, during the Civil War. From the guide to the Thomas M. Aldrich Papers, ., 1911-1913, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.) ...

United States. Army. Rhode Island Light Artillery, 1st.

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