. Annual report of the State Historian of the State of New York. ad taken the officeof President two months before, appointed General SicklesMinister to Spain — Sickles having declined the Mexican Mis-sion — where he remained until March 20, 1873, when he relin-quished tie honor and returned to New York where he has eversince resided. During 1888 and 1889 he was chairman of the New York StateCivil Service Commisision under Governor David B. Hill, and in1890 was appointed sheriff of New York, to succeed James , who had been removed. From 1886 to the present time(February, 1897) General S
. Annual report of the State Historian of the State of New York. ad taken the officeof President two months before, appointed General SicklesMinister to Spain — Sickles having declined the Mexican Mis-sion — where he remained until March 20, 1873, when he relin-quished tie honor and returned to New York where he has eversince resided. During 1888 and 1889 he was chairman of the New York StateCivil Service Commisision under Governor David B. Hill, and in1890 was appointed sheriff of New York, to succeed James , who had been removed. From 1886 to the present time(February, 1897) General Sickles has acted as President of theState Board of Commissioners for the erection of New York monu-ments at Gettysburg, Chattanooga and Missionary Ridge. InNovember, 1892, he was elected a member of the Fifty-third Con-gress. During his term in Congress he framed and passed theact establishing a National park embracing the battlefield ofGettysburg. As the champion of the rights of veteran soldiersand sailors he endeared himself to the survivors of the Major General Daniel Butterfield, U. S. Volunteers. Major-General Daniel Butterfield. General Butterfield was born in Oneida county, N. Y., father, John Butterfield, was one of the originators of theAmerican Express Company, built the first telegraph line fromNew York to Buffalo, and was president of the Overland Mail toSan Francisco. Young Butterfield graduated at Union Collegeir. 1849, and entered business life. At the outbreak of the war he was colonel of the TwelfthN. Y. S. M. When Sumter was fired upon he promptly tenderedhis services and those of his command to the government. Whileawaiting proper orders he drilled and organized the Clay Guards,for the protection of Washington before the arrival of troops, toassure the safety of the Capital of the nation. This duty accom-plished, he returned to New York, assumed command of thefamous Twelfth, with which he again went to Washington, andled the advance of the
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