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  • On the way I stopped at the historical peach-orchard, known as Sherfy's, where Sickles's Corps was repulsed, after a terrific conflict, on

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865 Various

  • Standing up, when Sickles's fist landed on him he would wince all over.

    Sonnie-Boy's People 1912

  • "There's Sickles's colt over in the medder, Jimmie," said the old man.

    The Veteran 1896

  • "There's Sickles's colt over in the medder, Jimmie," said the old man.

    The Little Regiment Stephen Crane 1885

  • Here, as we have already said, the Federal line of battle formed an angle, with the left wing of Sickles's corps bending backward so as to cover the opening between his line and the main crest in his rear.

    A Life of Gen Robert E Lee Cooke, John E 1876

  • “We know the enemy is flying,” General Hooker wrote, on the afternoon of this day, to General Sedgwick, “trying to save his trains; two of Sickles's divisions are among them.”

    A Life of Gen Robert E Lee Cooke, John E 1876

  • Sickles had so advised, and had, moreover, requested permission to make a night attack, to recover some guns, caissons, and Whipple's ammunition-train, which had been left in the woods in Sickles's front, and to enable him to join his right to Slocum's new line, thrown out in prolongation of Berry.

    The Campaign of Chancellorsville Theodore Ayrault Dodge 1875

  • Williams's line therefore slowly fell to the rear, still endeavoring to lean on Sickles's left.

    The Campaign of Chancellorsville Theodore Ayrault Dodge 1875

  • And to Sickles's very deliberate movement alone is due the fact that Berry was still there when the attack on

    The Campaign of Chancellorsville Theodore Ayrault Dodge 1875

  • When Sickles's attack, leading to the capture of the Twenty-third

    The Campaign of Chancellorsville Theodore Ayrault Dodge 1875

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