Posted on 01/14/2018 1:28:41 PM PST by WeWaWes
Francis Scott Key, the pro-slavery lawyer and amateur poet who penned “The Star-Spangled Banner” after witnessing the British bombardment of Fort McHenry 200 years ago, was famously inspired by the resilient spirit of a young nation.
Forty-five years later, Key’s other notable creation, his only son Philip Barton Key II, would experience an entirely different side of American life when he was slain in 1859 by a U.S. congressman and disgruntled cuckold named Daniel Sickles.
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Yes, we do and very interesting....thanks. Interesting site.
“”And he used to visit his leg at the old Army Medical Museum in D.C.””
Is that true? I trust you to know......
Democrat politicians, getting away with murder via insanity, since 1859. Driven insane that the other side would dare do… what they were already doing. The literal truth!
No.
Just Christians and Christmas.
Gen. Sickles was also instrumental in getting the Gettysburg battlefield preserved and documented.
I didn’t finish the biography because I just didn’t like him very much, but that could have been the author’s fault, too.
Well, I guess that would have been better than him taking his leg home to his faithless wife! Like a man throwing his hat in the door first - throw his leg in first? You can tell it’s been a long day here!
It's been nasty cold here the past two days. It was about 15 below zero overnight here. We got about a foot of snow, but had freezing rain prior to that. I didn't go outside to clean my car off until today. My car was all plowed in, but after getting most of the snow off it, I was able to gradually get it unstuck and moved to a plowed spot. Not sure when they'll get around to plowing the parking lot out again though, so I can move it back to where it's supposed to be. It's one degree out at the moment. It was 1 below when I was outside this morning.
My great grandfather’s oldest brother was in the Confederate charge that smashed Sickles’ exposed position in the peach orchard at Gettysburg.
Sickles’ folly caused the Union army’s left flank to collapse. He was lucky that he didn’t set off an even bigger disaster.
That article is some of the smarmiest, lousiest writing I’ve encountered in a long time. :-(
The nicotine in the cigar would have released dopamine and norepinephrine which would have raised his blood pressure, clamped down on his peripheral vessels, and helped staunch his bleeding. Might be why he survived.
You have to remember that John Reynolds, the much admired 1st Corps commander, had taken a bullet through the back of his head, the day before, and that his corps was, at that moment, in a tight wedge, being shot to bits from two sides at once. His corps probably needed some encouragement.
I've seen the bones of the leg, in their glass case. It was when the display was still the Museum of Military Pathology, on the grounds at Walter Reed Hospital.
The 2 inch ball hit him just below the knee, shattering both bones, and they cut it off about 2 inches above the joint. (You can see the saw marks, it was NOT a clean cut.) The display also had an ink sketch of an fat old mustached man on crutches, staring done at it. I must assume that was General Dan, visiting his leg.
I've been told that traumatic wounds, like this, do not always bleed heavily, instantly, since the vessels and surrounding muscles spasm, for a little while. It might explain why so many partial soldiers survive losing limbs.
Generals also get more and faster attention than your normal snuffie, what with aides waiting for orders, and all.
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