Matt Atkinson and Daniel Sickles | Gettysburg Winter Lecture 2024

Sunday February 18 – “All This is Monument Enough” - Sickles and the New York Monument Commission (NYMC) Ranger Matthew Atkinson, Gettysburg National Military Park Daniel E. Sickles - General, Politician, Defendant, Ambassador, War Hero, and Commissioner of the NYMC. This program will explore the life of Dan Sickles in the post-war years, his struggle to maintain his reputation as the hero of Gettysburg, and his efforts to create and memorialize a battlefield.