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Slocum, Henry Warner

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Slocum, Henry Warner (1827–1894)

US soldier, lawyer, and Democrat representative. He saw action at both Bull Run battles, Antietam, and Chancellorsville. He commanded the Union right-wing corps at Gettysburg and led the Army of Georgia, a component of William Sherman's army, through Georgia and the Carolinas in 1864–65. He served three terms in the US House of Representatives for New York; 1869–73, 1883–85.

He was born in Delphi, New York; A West Point graduate in 1852, he left the army to practice law. He returned to the service in 1861. After the US civil war, he resumed his law practice in Brooklyn.



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