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  2. Daniel Sickles's leg - Wikipedia

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    The amputated right lower leg of Union Army general Daniel Sickles, lost after a cannonball wound suffered at the Battle of Gettysburg on July 2, 1863, is displayed at the National Museum of Health and Medicine. Sickles was a former New York politician who entered the army after the outbreak of the American Civil War in 1861.

  3. Daniel Sickles - Wikipedia

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    Daniel Edgar Sickles (October 20, 1819 – May 3, 1914) was an American politician, soldier, and diplomat.. Born to a wealthy family in New York City, Sickles was involved in a number of scandals, most notably the 1859 homicide of his wife's lover, U.S. Attorney Philip Barton Key II, whom Sickles gunned down in broad daylight in Lafayette Square, across the street from the White House. [2]

  4. List of individual body parts - Wikipedia

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    Union Army general Daniel Sickles had his right leg amputated above the knee after a cannonball wound suffered at the Battle of Gettysburg on July 2, 1863. The limb was donated to the Army Medical Museum (now the National Museum of Health and Medicine), where it was used as a teaching example of battlefield trauma.

  5. III Corps (Union army) - Wikipedia

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    Its losses at Gettysburg were 578 killed, 3,026 wounded, and 606 missing; total, 4,210 out of less than 10,000 actually engaged. The morning report showed 11,924 present for duty equipped. General Sickles was seriously wounded, losing a leg; he left the corps and active military service, and General Birney succeeded temporarily to the command.

  6. Alexander Moore (soldier) - Wikipedia

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    During the Gettysburg Campaign, Moore served on the staff of Major General Daniel Sickles, commander of the 3rd Corps of the Union Army of the Potomac. He was present in the Peach Orchard at the Battle of Gettysburg on July 2, 1863, when Sickles lost his right leg from a Confederate artillery shell.

  7. Category:Daniel Sickles - Wikipedia

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  8. 72nd New York Infantry Regiment - Wikipedia

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    Dr. Charles K. Irwin, 72nd New York, Culpeper, Virginia, September 1863. The 72nd New York Infantry Regiment was one of five infantry regiments formed by former U.S. Congressman Daniel Sickles [i] [3] and established as part of the Excelsior Brigade which fought with the Union Army during multiple key engagements of the American Civil War, including the Chancellorsville Campaign in Virginia ...

  9. XI Corps (Union army) - Wikipedia

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    Replacing him was Maj. Gen. Oliver Otis Howard, who had lately been complaining that he deserved a corps command since General Daniel Sickles, his junior in rank, had gotten one. Howard quickly established a poor relationship with the troops due to his intense religious fervor, which especially alienated the anti-clerical Germans, and for ...