Dan Sickles and Abe Lincoln Discussed Gettysburg Two Days After the Battle. Here's What They Said.

On July 5, 1863, in a home in downtown Washington, D.C., Maj. Gen. Daniel Sickles lay in a stretcher, smoking a cigar and wincing with pain from the stump of his amputated leg, the result of a cannon ball on the second day of the fight. President Abraham Lincoln visited Sickles, and two men talked about the battle. Here's what they had to say.
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