Artifacts
A Present from Mrs. Lincoln
This necklace was presented to Daniel & Teresa Sickles by Mary Todd Lincoln, on the occassion of the birth of their daughter Laura in 1853.
Photo courtesy of PBS
Photo courtesy of PBS
A Strange Relic of the Civil War
Daniel Sickles' amputated leg bone and the cannon ball that inflicted the injury.
Photo courtesy of Arlington Cemetery.
Daniel Sickles sent this to the Army Medical Museum with a card that read "With compliments of Major General D.E.S."
Photo courtesy of Arlington Cemetery.
Daniel Sickles sent this to the Army Medical Museum with a card that read "With compliments of Major General D.E.S."
Sickles' Grave
Daniel Edgar Sickles' gravesite at Arlington National Cemetery.
Photo courtesy of Find A Grave.
Photo courtesy of Find A Grave.