The Life and Services of Major-General Henry Warner Slocum.

SLOCUM, Charles Elihu.

$200.00

Item Number: 133028

Toledo, Ohio: The Slocum Publishing Company, 1913.

First edition of the biography of one of the youngest major generals in the Union Army. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated, top edge red. In very good condition.

Henry Warner Slocum, Sr. served as a Union general during the American Civil War and later served in the United States House of Representatives from New York. During the war, he was one of the youngest major generals in the Army and fought numerous major battles in the Eastern Theater and in Georgia and the Carolinas. While commanding a regiment, a brigade, a division, and a corps in the Army of the Potomac, he saw action at First Bull Run, the Peninsula Campaign, Harpers Ferry, South Mountain, Antietam, and Chancellorsville.