Daniel Edgar Sickles was an American politician, Civil War veteran, and diplomat. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives both before and after the war.
HEADQUARTERS EXCELSIOR BRIGADE, September 30, 1861. “Good Hope, September 30, 1861. Assistant Adjutant-General, Army of the Potomac: GENERAL: I have the honor to report my return to camp last night.…
Second Brigade, Hooker’s Division, November 12, 1861. CAPTAIN: Herewith I have the honor to inelose Col. Charles K. Grahamâs report of a reconnaissance of Mathias Point and the peninsula of…
HEADQUARTERS EXCELSIOR BRIGADE, Second Brigade, Hooker’s Division, November 12, 1861. CAPTAIN: Herewith I have the honor to inelose Col. Charles K. Graham’s report of a reconnaissance of Mathias Point and…
HEADQUARTERS THIRD CORPS, May 2, 1863. May 2, 1863. (Received 3 p. m.) Major-General HOWARD: I am advancing a strong line of two brigades to ascertain whether the enemy is…
Mr. Sickles to Mr. Fish. No. 161.] Legation of the United States, San Ildefonso, September 16, 1870. (Received October 5.) Sir: Immediately after the announcement of the new provisional government…
No. 357. General Sickles to Mr. Fish. United States Legation in Spain, Madrid, November 24, 1872. (Received December 11.) No. 477.] Sir: Among the acts recently passed by the Spanish…
No. 359. General Sickles to Mr. Fish. [Extract.] United States Legation in Spain, Madrid, December 3, 1872. (Received December 23.) No. 491.] Sir: Day before yesterday, in the afternoon, the…
No. 380. General Sickles to Mr. Fish. United States Legation in Spain, Madrid, December 11, 1872. (Received January 6, 1873.) No. 501.] Sir: I have the honor to forward a…
No. 361. General Sickles to Mr. Fish. United States Legation in Spain, Madrid, December 14, 1872. (Received Jan. 6, 1873.) No. 505. Sir: I have the honor to forward herewith…
No. 362. General Sickles to Mr. Fish. United States Legation in Spain, Madrid, December 15, 1872. (Received Jan. 6, 1873.) No. 506.] Sir: I have the honor to forward herewith…
No. 365. General Sickles to Mr. Fish. United States Legation in Spain, Madrid, December 16, 1872. (Received January 6, 1873.) No. 509.] Sir: I have the honor to forward herewith…
No. 366. General Sickles to Mr. Fish. United States Legation in Spain, Madrid, December 17, 1872. (Received January 15, 1873.) No. 510.] Sir: I have the honor to transmit herewith,…
No. 367. General Sickles to Mr. Fish. [Telegram—Received December 22, 1872, 4.20 p.m.] Madrid, December 22, 1872. Both houses of Congress have accepted, by decisive majorities, the colonial policy indicated…
No. 369. General Sickles to Mr. Fish. [Telegram.—Received December 25, 10 a.m.] Madrid, 24 December, 1872. Minister of ultramar presented to-day in the chambers of deputies the bill for immediate…
No. 370. General Sickles to Mr. Fish. [Telegram.] Madrid, December 29, 1872. Since receipt of your cable of 23d, Martos has been ill. Minister of ultramar informed me that he…
No. 372. General Sickles to Mr. Fish. [Telegram.—Received 8.49 p.m.] Madrid, January 3, 1873. Interview with minister of state to-day. Under date of 28th ultimo, minister of ultramar sent royal…
No. 376. General Sickles to Mr. Fish. [Telegram.—Rec’d Jan. 18, 6.45 p.m.] Madrid, January, 18, 1873. Orders given by minister of ultramar that no fines be imposed on captains or…
No. 377. General Sickles to Mr. Fish. United States Legation in Spain, Madrid, January 19, 1873. (Received February 12.) No. 522.] Sir: The cabinet crisis foreshadowed in my Ho. 490…
No. 378. General Sickles to Mr. Fish. United States Legation in Spain, Madrid, January 27, 1873. (Received March 24.) No. 523.] Sir: I have the honor to report that on…
General Sickles to Mr. Martos. Legation of the United States of America, Madrid, January 27, 1873. [No. 4.—Note dated January 27, 1873.] Sir: 1 have the honor to acknowledge the…
No. 379. General Sickles to Mr. Fish. [Telegram.] Madrid, January 30, 1873. In view of the frequent interruption of communications by telegraph and post between Madrid and the frontier, and…
No. 380. General Sickles to Mr. Fish. [Telegram.—Received Feb. 10—12.10.] Madrid, February 10, 1873. Events foreshadowed in my telegram of January 30 imminent. King has announced to cabinet his desire…
No. 385. General Sickles to Mr. Fish. [Telegram.—Rec’d Feb. 13—9.50 p.m.] Madrid, February 11, 1873. Midnight. By authority of Cortes the executive government is constituted as follows: President, Estanislao Figueras.…
No. 388. General Sickles to Mr. Fish. [Telegram.—Received Feb. 12—8.20 p.m.] Madrid, February 12, 1873. All parties in Congress accept the republic. Am officially notified of new government by Castelar,…