Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies: General Dan Sickles' Account of the Battle of Chancellorsville (Illustrated)

Daniel Edgar Sickles (October 20, 1819 – May 3, 1914) was one of the most well known generals in the North during the Civil War, for all the wrong reasons. As an antebellum New York politician, Sickles was involved in a number of public scandals, most notably the killing of his wife's lover, Philip Barton Key II, son of Francis Scott Key. He was acquitted with the first use of temporary insanity as a legal defense in U.S. history. From there, he became one of the most prominent political ge...