(E-mail) Beatie titles are available at special discounts for bulk purchases in the United States by corporations, institutions, and other organizations. Printed in the United States of America.Ĭataloging-in-Publication Data is available from the Library of Congress. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. David Petruzzi, coauthor of Plenty of Blame to Go Around: Jeb Stuart’s Controversial Ride to GettysburgĪll rights reserved. “The few other Sickles biographies available will now take a back seat to Hessler’s powerful and evocative study of the man, the general, and the legacy of the Gettysburg battlefield that old Dan left America. Civil War enthusiasts who want to understand General Sickles’ scandalous life, Gettysburg’s battlefield strategies, the in-fighting within the Army of the Potomac, and the development of today’s National Park will find Sickles at Gettysburg a must-read. Hessler’s critically acclaimed biography is a balanced and entertaining account of Sickles colorful life. At Gettysburg, he openly disobeyed orders in one of the most controversial decisions in military history.
With his political career in ruins, Sickles used his connections with President Lincoln to obtain a prominent command in the Army of the Potomac’s 3rd Corps-despite having no military experience. By 1863, Sickles was notorious as a disgraced former Congressman who murdered his wife’s lover on the streets of Washington and used America’s first temporary insanity defense to escape justice. No individual who fought at Gettysburg was more controversial, both personally and professionally, than Major General Daniel E. Winner of the Gettysburg Civil War Roundtable’s Distinguished Book Awardīy licensed battlefield guide James Hessler, this is the most deeply-researched, full-length biography to appear on this remarkable American icon.
Lee Civil War Roundtable of Central New Jersey’s Bachelder-Coddington Literary Award puts him out there with all his wrinkles” ( Confederate Book Review).
“Sickles is as dividing a figure in Civil War history as there is.
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