LARGE IMPERIAL PHOTO OF 3RD CORPS GENERALS SICKLES AND HEINTZELMAN

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This image shows Major General Daniel Sickles seated at left. Sickles is holding his forage cap in his right hand resting it on the stump of his right leg. His crutches are leaning against the tree next to him. Seated to the right is Major General Samuel P. Heintzelman. He is posed with his legs crossed with his forage cap with rain cover in his lap. Additional foliage has been artfully added to the previously sparse trees as they appear in the original image.  The photo is mounted on a piece of thick gray stock that meas. approx. 19.50 inches x 17.00 inches while the image itself meas. approx. 18.50 inches long x 13.50 inches wide.

The photograph has wonderful contrast and clarity but there are some minor condition problems. All four corners are chipped. The upper right and lower right more severely than their opposites. There is a caption across the bottom of the mount that reads “MAJ. GEN. SAMUEL P. HEINTZELMAN & GEN. SICKLES.” The chip to the lower right corner all but obliterates the last two letters of Sickles name. The upper left corner has a fold crease and there is an outline of a water stain above the first three letters of the caption.

Daniel Edgar Sickles was an American politician, soldier, and diplomat.

As an antebellum New York politician, Sickles was involved in a number of public scandals, most notably the killing of his wife's lover, Philip Barton Key II, son of Francis Scott Key. He was acquitted with the first use of temporary insanity as a legal defense in U.S. history.

Upon the outbreak of the Civil War, Sickles became one of the war's most prominent political generals, recruiting the New York regiments that became known as the Excelsior Brigade in the Army of the Potomac. Despite his lack of military experience, he served competently as a brigade, division, and corps commander in some of the early Eastern campaigns. His military career ended at the Battle of Gettysburg in July 1863, after he insubordinately moved his III Corps to a position where it was virtually destroyed. He left the battle with an amputated leg, struck by cannon fire, and was eventually awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions. He devoted considerable effort to establishing his role in achieving the Gettysburg victory, writing articles and testifying before Congress in a manner that denigrated the intentions and actions of the army commander, Maj. Gen. George G. Meade. After the war, Sickles commanded military districts during Reconstruction, served as U.S. Minister to Spain, and eventually returned to Congress, where he made important legislative contributions for the preservation of the Gettysburg Battlefield.

Samuel Peter Heintzelman was born in Manheim, Pennsylvania on September 30, 1805. He graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1826 and was commissioned a brevet 2nd Lieutenant in the 3rd U.S. Infantry on July 1st of that year. At some point he was transferred to the 2nd U.S. Infantry and served on the Northern frontier at Fort Gratiot, Fort Mackinac, and Fort Brady.

On March 4, 1833, he was promoted to 1st Lieutenant and served as a Quartermaster in Florida during the Second Seminole War. On July 7, 1838, Heintzelman was appointed a Captain in the Quartermaster's Department but he remained in Florida until the close of the war in 1842. In 1847, during the Mexican War, he joined General Winfield Scott's army and took part in several engagements for which he was appointed brevet Major on October 9, 1847. In 1848-49 he went to California, and for several years served in there and in the Arizona Territory.

In December 1851, Major Heintzelman led the Yuma Expedition from the post of San Diego to put down an uprising, called the Yuma War. His expedition established Fort Yuma and peace was made in October, 1852. He received the brevet rank of Lieutenant Colonel for his conduct in the campaign against the Yuma Indians and on March 3, 1855, he was promoted to Major of the 1st U.S. Infantry and served with that regiment on the Texas frontier. In 1859, during the First Cortina War in Texas, he was largely responsible for the defeat of Juan Cortina's forces.

At the outbreak of the Civil War, Heintzelman became the Colonel of the 17th Pennsylvania Infantry, and was soon promoted to command of a division in the Army of Northeastern Virginia. He was wounded at the July 1861 battle of Bull Run, but soon recovered and resumed his duties.

He commanded the 3rd Corps of the Army of the Potomac in the Peninsula Campaign. His corps played a prominent role in the siege of Yorktown. The 3rd Corps bore the brunt of the fighting at Williamsburg and saw significant action at Fair Oaks and Oak Grove. It was temporarily attached to the Army of Virginia and took part in the Second Battle of Bull Run. Heintzelman was commissioned as a brevet Brigadier General in the regular army for the battle of Fair Oaks and a Major General of Volunteers for the battle of Williamsburg. His popularity and confidence in the army were eclipsed by the aggressive nature of his subordinate division commanders Joseph Hooker and Philip Kearny. Relieved of duty with the Army of the Potomac in late 1862, Heintzelman was assigned to the defense of Washington, D.C. in command of the Department of Washington. For the remainder of the war he commanded the Northern Department.

Heintzelman retired from the Army in 1869 as a Major General in the Regulars. He died in Washington, D.C., and is buried in Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo, New York.   [ad]

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