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Show GENERAL SICKLES CALLED. Veteran Whose Life Was One Continual Con-tinual Tempest Peacefully Surrenders Sur-renders to Death. New York. General Daniel E. Sickles, Sick-les, the choleric veteran of Gettysburg, Gettys-burg, died in his home here Sunday night. Death, caused by cerebral hemorrhages, came quietly. The gnarled old battle eagle, whose life was one of continual tempest, surrendered surren-dered to death as peacefully as a child might. He was 39 years old. General Daniel Edgar Sickles was the last of the great Commanders who fought the battle of Gettysburg. For a decade he was a fighter by profes sion all his life he was a fighter by nature. His indomitable fighting spirit remained to the last. Born in N'ew York City in 1825, Sickles, at the age of 22, fought the Whigs as a Democrat in the New York legisla- I GEN. DANIEL E. SICKLES k", f v M V General Sickles, the famous veteran of the Civil war, dies at his home In New York, aged 89. ture. At 28 he displayed his fighting spirit as corporation attorney o New York. It was he who secured for his city its great Central park. After the war his fighting spirit led him into the regular army, and he be came first, brigadier, and then major general. He continued active service until 1809. when he was appointed minister to Spain by President Grant. Returning alone to New York. General Gen-eral Sickles again entered politics. He served as sheriff of New York, and at r.T he was re-elected to congress. |