After The Trial and Death
Despite pronouncements of forgiveness by both of the Sickles and a brief reconciliation, which caused an outraged public reaction against him, Sickles was effectively estranged from his wife after the trial. Sickles continued to serve in Congress, and during the Civil War, as a Union general, earning the Medal of Honor after he lost his lower right leg during the Battle of Gettysburg.
Teresa took ill and died of tuberculosis in 1867 at about the age of thirty-one.
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