Jumat, 06 April 2018

Dan Sickles Blowing Smoke

Was wounded Dan Sickles coolly chomping that cigar as he was carried off the field at Gettysburg, or is it just a puffed-up tale? Every student of the Battle of Gettysburg knows the story—the intrepid Major General Dan Sickles, seemingly unperturbed, calmly smoking a Havana as he was carried from the field with the wound …

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