Excelsior Brigade
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The Excelsior Brigade was a military unit in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Mainly composed of infantry regiments raised in the state of New York primarily by former U.S. Representative
The insignia of the Excelsior Brigade
Daniel E. Sickles raised and organized much of what became the Excelsior Brigade
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 th
Excelsior Brigade
…of the Civil War, the controversial Sickles desired to repair his public image, which had been marred by the shooting death of his wife's paramour, Philip Barton Key. Sickles was active in raising thousands of recruits from around New York City for service in the United States volunteers in May 1861 under the authority…
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