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Authors: Keneally Thomas
Daniel Edgar Sickles Papers, Manuscripts Division, Library of Congress (abbreviated LC)
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Keneally, Thomas.
American scoundrel : the life of the notorious Civil War General Dan Sickles /
Thomas Keneally.
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1. Sickles, Daniel Edgar, 1819–1914. 2. Legislators—United States—Biography.
3. United States. Congress. House—Biography. 4. Murder—Washington (D.C.)
5. Generals—United States—Biography. 6. United States. Army—Biography.
7. Gettysburg (Pa.), Battle of, 1863. I. Title.
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