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...Flew out of Washington at week's end in his twin-engined Aero Commander to join Mamie at their Gettysburg farm, then to play 27 holes of golf-his first 27-hole round since the day before his heart attack...
Grandfatherly Beam. At week's end Ike drove to Gettysburg accompanied by two VIPs who were his weekend house guests: grandchildren David and Barbara Anne. While the President played the Gettysburg golf course, little David practiced his shots under the eye of Pro Dick Sleichter, then followed his grandfather's party around the back nine. Said Sleichter: "You'll be able to beat your father and your grandfather before many years." Father was not present to hear the warning, but grandfather beamed...
...Though he promoted the Act of Congress that established the Battlefield of Gettysburg as a national monument, Sickles lacks a statue there...
Perhaps because he was the General Sickles who led the III Corps into an indefensible salient in the Peach Orchard at Gettysburg, he has never had more than a corporal's guard of biographers, unlike the platoons, companies and regiments bristling about the tombs of other Civil War heroes.* In 1945, Edgcumb Pinchon wrote Sickles' first biography (TIME, June 18, 1945), but he was too preoccupied with Sickles as a sexy swashbuckler to catch the personality captured by sober-sided Civil War Buff Swanberg. Here the snaggle-toothed old warhorse gets free title to his redoubt...
...Sickles' volunteer army on the Federal payroll. Sickles hired chefs from Delmonico's to keep the mess happy, but good cooking did not save him from losing a third of his men in the advanced position he had taken up against Meade's orders at Gettysburg. While the rights of the matter were still being debated (they still can be), the one-legged hero clumped about the White House trying to get Lincoln to let him back into the fight. He was not to be satisfied until 40 years later when Versifier Horatio King put his military...