Sickles and the Civil War

Sickles was elected to the new york state senate in 18 56. He found out that his wife was having an affair with another man and shot him dead. The man he killed happened to be philip barton key, the son of national anthem composer francis scott key. Sickles turned himself in and hired a team of lawyers for his defence. It took over two weeks of testimony, but in the end, sickles was acquitted. For the first time in the history of the us. Court system, the jury believed him. Rather than run for re election in the senate, sickles sought to rehabilitate his image by building up an army of volunteer soldiers in new