Please join us for a Chambersburg Civil War Seminars & Tours Lecture Series! Our next lecture will be: The Daniel Sickles Murder Trial by James Hessler. Cost is $6 per person. Zoom Login details will be sent with your email registration confirmation.

Synopsis

Many Civil War enthusiasts know Union General Dan Sickles as the man who nearly lost the Battle of Gettysburg for the Northern army. But in 1859, then-Congressman Sickles was best known for murdering US District Attorney Philip Barton Key, who was having an affair with Sickles’s wife. Congressman Sickles shot Key dead in front of multiple eyewitnesses yet was somehow acquitted of the crime in a “trial of the century”! Join Sickles at Gettysburg author, Gettysburg Licensed Battlefield Guide, and The Battle of Gettysburg Podcast co-host James Hessler as we learn how and why Sickles managed to evade justice. Is "temporary insanity" a myth? View 'Then and…