Daniel Sickles shoots Philip Barton Key on the street in Washington, DC, February, 1859

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Depicted ContentCongressman Daniel Sickles is acquitted in his trial for the murder of Philip Barton Key

Depicted ContentCongressman Daniel Sickles is indicted for murder in Washington D.C. in the shooting of Philip Barton Key

Depicted ContentCongressman Daniel Sickles of New York murders Philip Barton Key in the street in Washington D.C.

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Hon. Daniel E. Sickles shooting Philip Barton Key, in President's Square, Washington.

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Felix G. Fontaine, Trial of the Hon. Daniel E. Sickles for the Shooting of Philip Barton Key, Esq., U.S. District Attorney of Washington, D.C., February 27, 1859 (New York: R.M. De Witt, 1859), 24.