Article: Wherever Sickles goes, trouble follows.(SATURDAY)(THE CIVIL WAR)

Byline: Erin Solaro, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Thomas Keneally's biography of Dan Edgar Sickles makes for sordid reading, not because Keneally is prurient, but because Sickles was thoroughly dishonorable.

Dan Sickles died in April 1914 at the age of 94. A year earlier, he had been arrested for appropriating about $28,000 from the New York Monuments Commission.The man who discovered the discrepancy, State Controller William Somer, started a drive to cover Sickles' embezzlement, and Helen B. Longstreet, daughter of the Confederate general, undertook to "raise money among the ragged, destitute, maimed veterans who followed Lee. ... The Republic, ...

Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles:

 
 
Newsweek Harper's Magazine The Washington Post Chicago Tribune Crain's Chicago Business PRNewswire Pediatric News The Nation Advertising Age The Economist (US) A FREE trial gives you access to over 80 million articles! Access over 6,500 publications with a FREE trial!