The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-04-15
GEN. SLOCUM'S DEATH
Takes Place at His Brooklyn
Home After a Weeks Illness.
He Commanded the Left Wing During
Sherman's March to the Sea-Sen-
atOr Vance, of North Carolina.

BROOKLYN, April 14.-General Slocum
breathed his last at his home in Brooklyn
to-day. He had been suffering for week
with acute pneumonia He was sixty-seven
years old. The funeral arrangements were
partially completed this evening for the
burial of General Slocum. They will be of
a military nature, and every respect will
be paid to the dead soldier and veteran.
The services will be held at the Church Of
the Messiah at o'clock on Tuesday. Did
Baker, the rector, officiates. The interment
will be in Greenwood Cemetery. This even
ing the following were telegraphed to and
signified their willingness TO act pail
bearers: Maj. Gen. John NJ. Schofeld. Maj
Gen. FitZ-John Porter. Maj. Daniel E. But
terrified, Mai Gen. Daniel E. Sickles, Con-
gresham VIM. j. Combs, ex-Bridge Trustee
William Marshall, ex-senator James A
Pierce, Maj. Gen. o. o. Howard, Supreme
Court Justices Edgar Cullen and Calvin
Pratt. There are to be twelve pallbearers,
but the others to whom kilograms have
been sent have not as yet answered, and
their names will not be told until they do
At the funeral there will be present all the
members from the Grand Army posts OF
Kings county, the Twenty-third Regiment
of Brooklyn and the Light Artillery from
Fort Hamilton. Six SergeantS of the Light
Artillery will act as guard OF honor. Tele-
grams of sympathy were received to-day
from all parts of the country. Among the
most prominent were those from Secretary
of War Daniel Lamont, Senator David y.
Hill, Governor Flower and Ex-Governor
Foraker of Ohio.
Henry Warner Slocum born in Del
phi, Onondaga county, New York, Sept. "A,
1927, He graduated from West Point in 1852
. and was ordered to Florida as second lieu
tenant in the First Artillery. He was made
first lieutenant in 1855, but soon resigned
from the service and returned to New York
to practice law at Syracuse. He was in
the State Legislature in 1859. At the break
ing out of the civil war he rendered his
services and became colonel of the Twenty
seventh New York Volunteers, inMay, 1861.
He was severely wounded at Bull Run in
July, and in August was commissioned
brigadier general of volunteers and as
signed to the Army Of the Potomac. He
succeeded Gen. William b. Franklin in the
command Of the division in May, 1862, after
the siege of Yorktown With his division
he reinforced Fitz-John Porter at Gaines's
Mills and rendered important service at
Glendale and Malvern Hill later on. He
was promoted to the rank of ma jor general
of volunteers in July, and engaged in the
second battle of Bull Run. He was in the
battles of South Mountain, Antietam, Fred
erickSburg, Charlottesville and GettyS-
burg, commanding the right wing of the
army at the latter place. He was trans
ferred with his command and served in the
Army of the Cumberland until April, 1864,
when his corps was consolidated with the
Eleventh, and he was assigned TO the COM
mand Of division at Nicksburg. He sue
ceeded Gen. Joseph Hooker in command of
the Twentieth Corps in August, 1864, and
led the first body of troops into Atlanta on
Sept. 2 of that year. He commanded the
left wing of Sherman'S march to the sea,
and was in every engagement from then
until the surrender of Johnston at Durham
Station, n. c. General Slocum resigned in
September, 1865, and resumed the practice
of law at Brooklyn. In 1865 he was de-
feated on the Democratic ticket for New
York Secretary of State, but was elected
In 1876 he was on the Brooklyn Board of
City Works. and in 1884 was again elected
to Congress. He was one of the commits
sioners of the Brooklyn bridge, and favored
making il free to the public.