The morning call., 1894-04-15

spoke to his family. At 1905 o'clock. per-
fectly conscious Of his approaching end. be
died a painless death. Immediately after
the house was closed. the telephone-be bell
muffled and no information at all given out
of the generals death until after o'clock
this morning.
BROOKLYN, n. Y, April 14.-The f.
neral arrangements were partially COM
pleted this evening for the burial of Gen
eral Slocum. They will be of military
nature. The services will be held at the
Church of the Messiah at 2 o'clock on
Tuesday. DR.. Banker, the rector, offici-
ates. The interment will be in Green
wood Cemetery.
Henry Warner Slocum was bora on Sep
tember "a 1927. at Delphia, Onondaga
County, n. Y. He early showed an incll-
nation toward a military career. receiving
an appointment from his Congressional
district to the United States Military
Academy at West Point in 1S4S. He was
graduated in 1852 with the appoin tment of
second lieutenant in the First Artillery.
He was made first lieutenant in 1856, and
a year later resigned and entered upon the
practice Of law in Syracuse. In 1859 he
was q membe of the Legislature. At the
outbreak of the war he promptly offered
his services TO the Government, and on
May q, 1861, he was commissioned COL
oueI of the Twenty-seventh New York
Volunteers.
At the first battle Of Bull Run he was
wounded in the thigh. Before the close
of the summer of 1851 Colonel Slocum was
promoted TO the rank Of brigader-general
and served in the Army of the Potomac.
He participated in the engagements at
Gaines Mill ard Malvern Hill among 9th
ers, commanding division. On July 4.
1862, he was made major-general of Vol
unteers and took part in the second battle
of Bull Run and the battles of South Noun
tain and Antietam. In October of that
year he was assigned 10 the command of
the Twelfth Army CorrY. and in the
bloody battles of Fredericksburg, Chan.
cellorville and Gettysburg he was in active
service. At Gettysburg be commanded
the right wing of the Union forces which
turned the tide of pattle.
General Slocum afterward had charge
of the Department Of the Cumberland
and in April, 1864. ne took command of
the Eleventh Army Corps and had control
of the District of Vicksburg. In August
of that year he succeeded Fighting Joe"
Hooker at the head of the Twentieth
Army Corps and accompanied General
Sherman to Atlanta. In tho famous march
to the sea General Slocum commanded the
left wing of the Army of Georgia until
the surrender of General Joseph E. John
ston.
II,
signed from the army and resumed the
practice of law, making his home in
klyD. The same fall he was nom-
mated for Secretary of State of New
York by the Democratic party upon the
ticket which was defeated at the polls. In
1866 he declined the post of colonel in the
regular army. He was Presidential
elector in 1868. and in the same campaign
was elected 10 Congress from the Third
strict. BE gained considerable reputa-
ton at Washington, and served with such
credit TO his constituency that he was re-
elected in 1870. In 1876 Mayor Schroeder
Of Brooklyn appointed General Slocum
president Of the Department of City
Works. but there was opposition on the
part of the Democratic leaders to his con-
firmation by the Board of Aldermen and
"Boss" Mclaughlin and General Slocum
withdrew his name.
General Slocum was one OF the stock
holders in the New York and Brooklyn
Bridge Company at the time the two cities
took control of the work in 1875. and was
appointed one of the Brooklyn trustees in
that year. He was reappoInted several
times and served until after the bridge was
opened. giving much time and attention to
his duties. He also became interested in
street-railroad matters. and lie was maze
president of the Cresstown Company,
making it the best-faying line in the city,
In the Mayoralty camra gn OF 1881 he was
the candidate OF the Independent or JEFF
fersonian Democracy in opposition TO
Mayor Howell. After Seth Low became
the candidate of the Republicans and citi-
Gems General Slocum Withdrew in his