In Memoriam: Henry Warner Slocum 1826-1894.

NEW YORK MONUMENTS COMMISSION [WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN],.

$300.00

Item Number: 145997

Albany: J.B. Lyon Company, 1904.

First edition of this work dedicated to the memory of an esteemed Union general; from the library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman. Quarto, original cloth, botanical endpapers, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Henry Warner Slocum, illustrated with twenty-six additional photographic plates and four folding maps. P. T. Sherman’s bookplate to the front pastedown beneath his ownership signature. In very good condition. General William Tecumseh Sherman’s son P. T. Sherman was a lawyer in New York, specializing in labor and insurance, and was elected a member of the New York Board of Alderman in the late 1880s. In the early 1900s, he was appointed the New York Commissioner of Labor. He transferred his library to his niece, Eleanor Sherman Fitch, the granddaughter of General Sherman through his eldest daughter, Maria “Minnie” Ewing Sherman Fitch, before he died. Until now, this book was held at the family estate in Washington County, Pennsylvania.

Henry Warner Slocum Sr., was one of the youngest Union generals during the American Civil War, fighting numerous major battles in the Eastern Theater and in Georgia and the Carolinas. Slocum was appointed the commander of the left wing of Gen. William T. Sherman's famous "March to the Sea," where he captured the then state capital of Georgia, Milledgeville, and the Atlantic coast seaport of Savannah. His leadership was crucial to many of the Union's successful battles and its ultimate victory of the war.