Daniel Sickles
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Daniel Edgar Sickles was an American politician, soldier, and diplomat.
Major General Sickles c. 1862
Sickles fatally shoots Key in 1859.
The trial of Sickles. Engraving from Harper's Magazine
Maj. Gen. Daniel E. Sickles, c. 1859–1870. Carte de Visite Collection, Boston Public Library
Philip Barton Key II
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Philip Barton Key II was an American lawyer who served as U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia. He is most famous for his public affair with Teresa Bagioli Sickles, and his eventual murder at the hands of her husband, Congressman Daniel Sickles of New York. Sickles defended himself by adopting a defense of temporary insanity, the first time the defense had been successfully used in the United States.
Harper's Weekly engraving of Philip Barton Key from a photograph by Mathew Brady
Harper's Weekly engraving of Daniel Sickles shooting Key
Harper's Weekly engraving of Mrs. Sickles from a photograph of Mathew Brady