More trivia: Sickles received a General’s commission in the Union army because of his political connections, and commanded Third Corps at Gettysburg. Sickles disobeyed his orders to defend Little Round Top and projected his troops out into the Wheat Field, where they suffered serious casualties. Sickles was one of them, losing a leg. During Grant’s reorganization of the Army of the Potomac, Third Corps was eliminated, it’s components being distributed among other units.
Dan Sickles took his leg with him to Washington when he was evacuated after the battle of Gettysburg, and gave it to a group of Army docs who were studying battle wounds. The leg was preserved, and for years after the war he visited his own leg in a museum in DC, and the leg still exists.
In spite of his battlefield screw-up, he wound up bewitching Congress into giving him a medal, and in the 1880s, he established the commission that turned Gettysburg into a national park.
Other little known fact—in 1890, he was elected Sheriff of NYC.
One of the most colorful characters in American history. If he was alive, he would agree.