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Civil War Journal
Season 3 · Episode 9
Dan Sickles: The General Who Got Away With Murder
0.01h 0mApril 30, 1995
The Union general who, before the war, became the first defendant in a murder trial to be acquitted on a plea of temporary insanity. Sickles killed a man he accused of having an affair with his wife.
Episodes
- Episode 1Mr. Lincoln’s Butcher: General Ulysses S. Grant
- Episode 2Freedom’s Road: Slavery and the Opposition
- Episode 3Divided Houses: Families Split by War
- Episode 4Picture Perfect: The Pomp & Vision of Matthew Brady
- Episode 5Bloodiest Day: Antietam
- Episode 6Born Killers: The Iron Brigade
- Episode 7Trains at War
- Episode 8The Boy Generals
- Episode 9Dan Sickles: The General Who Got Away With Murder
- Episode 10First Ladies: North and South
- Episode 11Yanks vs Rebs: The Foot Soldiers Life
- Episode 12Honor the Dead: Unsung Heroes of Gettysburg
- Episode 13Immigrants and the American Civil War
- Episode 14Preserving the Past
- Episode 15Gettysburg: Victory at All Costs