| Y/M/D | Description | Place |
|---|---|---|
| 1859/02/25 | Returning home from a dance at the Willard Hotel, Daniel Sickles opens the note saying that Philip Barton Key rents a home (lost) of a negro man on 15th Street between K and L for the purpose of meeting with your wife. | |
| 1859/02/25 | I have been in a house on 15th street with Mr Key, how many times I don't know.... There is a bed in it, in the second story, to do what is usual for a wicked woman to do. The intimacy commenced this winter, when I came from New York, - TBS | |
| 1859/02/27 | Spotting Key on a bench outside the Sickles home signalling Teresa, Daniel Sickles runs outside onto on Madison Place, shouts "Key, you scoundrel, you have dishonored my home. You must die" and shots him with multiple pistol shots. | Lafayette Square Historic District, Washington, DC |
| 1859/02/27 | US Attorney for the District of Columbia, Philip Barton Key, is shot in broad daylight on Madison Place, the street on the east side of Lafayette Square, by Congressman Daniel Sickles. | Lafayette Square Historic District, Washington, DC |
| 1859/02/27 | Philip Barton Key dies of gunshot wounds at the Benjamin Ogle Tayloe House on Madison Place. | Benjamin Ogle Tayloe House, Washington, DC |
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