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Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Disability History, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

Dan Sickles could be the subject of his own "Across the Commons" feature... Here he is much later in life (1913): and here's a photograph of his Fifth Avenue home, apparently:

General Daniel E. Sickles, seated left, commanded the III Corps at Gettysburg where he lost his leg on July 2, 1863.

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Daniel Sickles (1819-1914) lost his leg during the Civil War. Colorful character: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Sickles Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Disability History, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

Judging by the hat and the solder escorting him, I'd guess that he's at the Grand Reunion of 1913, held at Gettysburg Pennsylvania, to mark the 50th anniversary of the battle. Sickles lost his leg, and a large portion of his command, there. He donated his lost limb to a medical museum in Washington, where he'd visit it from time to time. Earlier in life, he shot and killed Philip Barton Key, Francis Scott Key's son, who was having an affair with his wife. I believe he was the first American to use the temporary insanity defense.

Mrs. Wilmerding is Eleanor Earle Wilmerding, who was Sickles' housekeeper and mistress. She lived with him in New York; his estranged wife and adult son lived in a nearby hotel when they were in town. Mrs. Wilmerding controlled who visited SIckles in his later years, and accompanied him on his rare public appearances (at 93, he was no longer capable of making speeches). Surprisingly, she died before him, in February 1914--he passed away a few weeks later, in April. www.sicklesatgettysburg.com/Sickles_Biography.html

I think MDRails could well be correct about this being related to the reunion of July 1913, especially because of the army uniform of his escort. He was especially of interest to the New York media becaue of the alleged missapropriation of $23,476 from the State Monument Commission of which he was Chairman, according to this report of January 27, 1913: query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9C04E7D81E3AE633A...

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Veterans of the American Civil War, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

Wow.

NARA Catalogue 111-SC-37167. Taken February 6, 1919. "VOCATIONAL SCHOOL FOR WOUNDED SOLDIERS. WALTER REED HOSPITAL. WASHINGTON, D.C. Wounded soldiers learning telegraphy." Source (catalog.archives.gov/id/55233511)