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HENRY WARNER SLOCUM (1827-1894)

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 243 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HENRY See also:WARNER See also:SLOCUM (1827-1894)  , See also:American See also:general, was See also:born at See also:Delphi, See also:Onondaga See also:county, New See also:York, on the 24th of See also:September 1827, and graduated at the See also:United States Military See also:Academy in 1852 . He resigned from the See also:army in 1856 to practise See also:law at See also:Syracuse, N.Y., and in 1859 he was a member of the See also:state See also:Assembly . When the See also:Civil See also:War See also:broke out he became See also:colonel (May 1861) of the 27th New York See also:Volunteers, and was promoted brigadier-general of volunteers (See also:August 1861) and See also:major-general of volunteers (See also:July 1862) . He fought in all the See also:Virginia See also:campaigns from the first See also:battle of See also:Bull Run, where he led a See also:regiment, to See also:Gettysburg, where he commanded the XII. See also:corps . With that corps he was transferred in the autumn of 1863 under See also:Hooker's command to the See also:Tennessee Valley, and took See also:part in the battle of See also:Chattanooga . He remained with the Army of the See also:Cumberland after his corps was merged into that of Hooker, took part in the See also:Atlanta See also:campaign, and after Hooker's retirement succeeded to the command of the XX. corps (See also:late XI. and XII.) . He commanded the Atlanta See also:garrison, and with See also:Sherman took part in the " See also:march to the See also:sea," and subsequently in, the Carolinas campaign from See also:Savannah to See also:Goldsboro, as See also:commander of the See also:left wing . He resigned from the army in September 1865, resumed professional practice at See also:Brooklyn, and was a Democratic representative in See also:Congress in 1869–1873 and again in 1883–1885 . In 1876–1884 he was See also:president of the Brooklyn See also:city See also:board of public See also:works . He died at Brooklyn on the 14th of See also:April 1894 . A See also:monument of General See also:Slocum by See also:Frederick See also:MacMonnies was unveiled at Brooklyn, N.Y., on the 3oth of May 1905 .

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