biography
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Slocum, Henry Warner
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| lived:
| (1827–94)
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| biography:
| US soldier, lawyer, and US representative, born in Delphi, New York, USA. He trained at West Point (1852), and left the army to practise law. He returned to the service (1861) and 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 Sherman's army, through Georgia and the Carolinas (1864–5). After the war, he took up his law practice in Brooklyn and served three terms in the US House of Representatives (Democrat, New York, 1869–73, 1883–5). |
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