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American Scoundrel: Love, War and Politics in Civil War America Thomas Keneally 320pp, Chatto & Windus, £20 Daniel Edgar Sickles was buried in Arlington National Cemetery in 1914 with military honours, befitting one of America's Civil War generals.
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