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Yes, the son of Francis Scott Key. And he was about to be placed on trial. Here again is Gettysburg National Military Ranger Matt Atkinson.

Let's return to the story. Sickles will be placed in the DC jail. He will never stay in a cell.

He will actually stay in the jailer's quarters. It will be arguably, at least for this region of the country, the most sensational trial of the century. During the midst of this trial by a jury, none other than President Buchanan is going to come in and shake Sickles' hand in front of the jury. What does that tell the jury?

It means he supports him. Sickles will have the dream team defense lawyers. And for the first time, they will argue to the jury that Sickles suffered from temporary insanity. And for the first time in American jurisprudence history, Sickles will successfully use the defense of temporary insanity. In other words, Sickles walks right out of there. Got away with murder. Of course, society did what? They condoned what Sickles had done. That's justifiable homicide.

Key should not have been doing that. They condemned Sickles when he took his wife back. That's when Sickles gets booted from Congress.

Probably Dan, as I said earlier, probably did really love her. And what did he have to say about fidelity? Sickles' political career is basically over, although he still has Tammany Hall behind him. But Sickles, once again, right place, right time.

The war breaks out. Dan Sickles comes from which party? Democrat. What party does Abraham Lincoln come from?

Republican. Every president of every war of any era is going to want bipartisan support. Because of that, Sickles is going to be one of the first Democrats to come out in favor of a Republican war.

And you know what else Dan does? He backs up his patriotism with his own money. And he raises not a regiment of troops, but a whole brigade. And Lincoln embraces both things, the support for the war and him being a Democrat. And more importantly, Dan Sickles, when he gets his Brigadier General Commission, he becomes a general very early in the war, and that's going to go into his rise, September 3rd 1861, after he raises what will become known as the New York Excelsior Brigade.

Now he was promoted to Major General to rank from November 29th 1862. Sickles was assigned to corps command that winter, in 1963. What you need to know as far as us going into Gettysburg, probably one of the more famous stories from the battle of Gettysburg is actually the wounding of Dan Sickles. Dan Sickles is going to be back at the Trostle farm, and he's going to be sitting astride his horse.

It's got to be a one in a million shot. And you know when you're sitting in the saddle, that when you lean down you're sitting in the saddle, your knees go out. One in a million shot, Sickles is going to feel something warm, he's going to take his hand, he's going to reach down to his leg and he's going to pull back something warm.

What is that warm? Blood. A Confederate solid shot has come in and smashed, or a piece of shrapnel has come in and smashed his leg. You know the horse was unscathed. This is what Sickles wrote, I never knew I was hit.

I was riding the lines and was tremendously interested in the terrific fighting, I bet he was. Suddenly I was conscious of dampness along the lower part of my right leg and I ran my hand down the leg of my high top boots and pulling it out I was surprised to see it dripping with blood. Soon I noticed the leg would not perform its usual functions. I lifted it carefully over my horse's neck and slid to the ground. They found that the knee had been smashed, probably by a piece of shell, and that the leg had been broken above and also below the knee.

But while all this damage had been done, I had not been unhorsed. At first age wrapped a handkerchief around Sickles' leg, then a saddle strap was brought and used as a tourniquet. Sickles is carried off on a stretcher and at some point, as all American generals do, when the word went around that he was dead, Sickles had himself propped up on his shoulders and that lit cigar stuck into his mouth.

And that's the way he left the battlefield, smoking a cigar. Later that evening, his leg is amputated on a farm located near the present day shopping outlets on Baltimore Pike. Sickles will have the leg preserved in a cask of alcohol and brought with him. Being a politician and knowing the power and symbolism of a lost limb, he donated the leg to the Army Medical Museum.

And yes, you, my fellow American taxpayers, still own it. It is true that Sickles did visit the leg. On probably his first visit to the Army Medical Museum, the curator was leading Sickles on a tour when the general uttered, oh yes, yes, but let us come to my leg. When the curator led Sickles to the exhibit, the general retorted, where's my foot? What have you done with my foot?

They should have been shown too. When the curator tried to explain that the foot was not really necessary for the exhibit, Sickles became very angry and anathematized the museum very freely. In October of 1963, Sickles is feeling much better and he met with his boss Meade at Fairfax Station, Virginia to ask for his old command back.

Meade refused. After the war, Gettysburg continued to be a passionate thing in Sickles' life. He made an impassioned plea that the sacred battlefield be preserved and he vowed in true Sickles fashion to do something about it. In 1893, he won reelection to congress at the age of 74 for one term.

Two years. While there, he pushed through with irresistible energy a bill to preserve the land that made him famous or infamous as the case may be. Today, Sickles Avenue is actually the longest avenue within the military park. I don't know if that was intentional, but I'm sure Sickles would have agreed with it. On May 3rd, 1914, Sickles is going to pass away in New York City. He was 94 years old. One thing was certain, the Gettysburg event was the defining moment in Dan Sickles' life.

And alas, Dan Sickles, the general out of seven Union Corps commanders, one of only two that does not have a monument here, reportedly, and this is up for debate, reportedly when Dan Sickles was asked why he didn't have a statue on the battlefield, he retorted, that is because the whole damn battlefield is my monument. And great job as always to Monty for finding this story. And a special thanks to Gettysburg National Park Service for allowing us to use this audio and what a storyteller Matt Atkinson is. And by the way, that's a story you will not hear in your history class. He was a scoundrel, but in the end, look what he did. He raised the money for a brigade. Scoundrels and natives, patriots and heroes. Sometimes it's hard to tell the difference, and in this case, a scoundrel does in some very strange way become a hero.

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