Cheering Sickles (LOC)

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    Cheering Sickles

    [July 1913] (date created or published later by Bain)

    1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.

    Notes:
     Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative.
    Photo shows General Daniel Sickles at the the Gettysburg Reunion (the Great Reunion) of July 1913, which commemorated the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2009)
    Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

    Format: Glass negatives.

    Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

    Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

    General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain

    Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.13867

    Call Number: LC-B2- 2791-11

    Comments and faves

    1. pennylrichardsca (38 months ago | reply)

      Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Disability History, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

    2. Infrogmation (38 months ago | reply)

      Gettysburg veteran General Daniel Sickles at the Great Reunion in 1913. He died the following year at age 94.

      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Sickles

    3. BobMeade (38 months ago | reply)

      Interesting to caption this as "Cheering Sickles". General Sickles himself appears to also be cheering, and every person in the photo appears to be looking at one place.

      Would Sickles have been cheering himself? Today that would seem unlikely, but I'm not sure of the etiquette for cheering in 1913.

    4. pennylrichardsca (38 months ago | reply)

      Sickles was in his 90s at the Great Reunion, he was allowed to cheer for anything as he pleased. ;) And from the stories about him, I doubt etiquette was ever a major consideration in his life, at any age.

    5. swanq (38 months ago | reply)

      As a legislator he had pushed for the establishment of Gettysburg as a park. Perhaps that was what the cheering was about.

      bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?i ndex=S000402 has a briefer bio than Wikipedia, focusing on his political career in New York State and Congress.

      See comments on www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/368 1834943/ for more about him and his female companion, Mrs. Wilmerding.

      This picture was used in a longer biography at
      www.sicklesatgettysburg.com/Sickles_Biography .html

      NYT of June 30, 1913 reports on his visit to the Gettysburg reunion:
      query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9502E 6DD153FE633A...

    6. Harry Angstrom (38 months ago | reply)

      from the Wikipedia article about Gen. Meade:

      Sickles had developed a personal vendetta against Meade because of Sickles's allegiance to Joseph Hooker, whom Meade replaced, and because of violent disagreements at Gettysburg. (Sickles's grossly insubordinate actions as the commander of the III Corps almost lost the battle, and by extension almost the war, for the Union.)

      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Meade

      here is Wikpedia article about Gen. Sickles:
      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Sickles

    7. David C. Foster (38 months ago | reply)

      Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Veterans of the American Civil War, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

    8. amagocsi (38 months ago | reply)

      The white, reversed, writing on the photo states: Gen. Sickles being cheered.

    9. BobMeade (38 months ago | reply)

      Thanks amagocsi, I could not make it out myself.

    10. thetallguy747 (37 months ago | reply)

      Wasn't Sickles the guy who had his amputated leg shipped back to NYC so it could be exhibited at a museum? He was quite a character, apparently.

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