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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Daniel Edgar Sickles papers, 1821-1918</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Sickles, Daniel Edgar</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1819-1914</namePart>
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  <language>
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  <abstract>Correspondence, speeches, documents, legal and financial records, clippings, printed matter, and other papers.  Includes drafts of reports to the U.S. secretary of state while Sickles was serving as U.S. minister to Spain (1869-1873) relating, in part, to the Cuban Insurrection (1868-1878) and the Virginius affair.  Other topics include Sickles's service as U.S. representative in the 53rd Congress and as chairman (1886-1912) of the New York (State) Monuments Commission for the Battlefields of Gettysburg and Chattanooga.  Correspondents include Sickles's son, George Stanton Sickles; his father, George Garrett Sickles; William McKinley; Theodore Roosevelt; and Elihu Root.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Microfilm edition available, no. 18,173.</note>
  <note>Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1981.</note>
  <note>U.S. Army officer, U.S. representative from New York, and diplomat.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
  <note xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011120">Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011120</note>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>McKinley, William</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1843-1901</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Roosevelt, Theodore</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1858-1919</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Root, Elihu</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1845-1937</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Sickles, George Garrett</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Sickles, George Stanton</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>New York (State).</namePart>
      <namePart>Monuments Commission for the Battlefields of Gettysburg and Chattanooga.</namePart>
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    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>United States.</namePart>
      <namePart>Congress</namePart>
      <namePart>House.</namePart>
      <namePart>(53rd : 1893-1895).</namePart>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Virginius (Steamer)</namePart>
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  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Chattanooga, Battle of, Chattanooga, Tenn., 1863</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Cuba</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Insurrection, 1868-1878</temporal>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Spain</geographic>
    <topic>Foreign relations</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>Foreign relations</topic>
    <geographic>Spain</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Civil War, 1861-1865</temporal>
    <topic>Monuments</topic>
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    <occupation>Army officers</occupation>
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    <occupation>Diplomats</occupation>
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    <occupation>Representatives, U.S. Congress</occupation>
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