Sibley, John JL

Encyclopedic Dictionary of American Reference · 1901 · p. 225
(1804-1885), was a istant librarian at Harvard from 1841 to 1856 and librarian from 1856 to 1877. He published ‘‘ Biographical Sketches of Graduates of Harvard University,’’ in three volumes, Sickles, Daniel Edgar, born in 1823, was prior to the war a lawyer, Democratic member of the New York Legislature, Secretary of Legation at London, and Congre man from 1857 to 1861. He had command of a brigade in the Peninsula campaign and at Antietam, a division at Fred ericks burg, and a corps at Chancellorsville and at Gettysburg, where his services were conspicuous. After the war he was sent abroad on a mi ion, and retired from the army with the rank of major general in 1869. From 1869 to 1873 he was U. S. Minister to Spain. In 1893 he re-entered the House of Representatives as a Democrat from New York City.
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