Dan Sickles: The General Who Got Away With Murder

Civil War Journal

S03E09
April 30, 1995 60 min

Overview

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.

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