The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-04-19
Gen. Henry W. sIocum Passes Away.

Gen. Henry W. slocum Passes Away.
 NEW YORK, April 15.-Gen. Henry W. Slocum died at 1905 Saturday morn- ing. He had been i'll only few days and death was not expected. Just be- fore o'clock Friday night he suddenly began to sink and his family physician, who had charge of the case, was sum- moned. He saw at once the serious condition of the patient and called Drs Fuhs and Benjamin in consultation. They succeeded in arresting the relapse, and at 8 o'clock it was thought that he was bet ter. He suddenly grew worse, and his family was summoned to his bedside to await the end. At II o'clock he fell into a sleep, which continued three quarters of an hour. A few minutes before midnight he awoke and spoke to the family. At l2:O5, while perfectly conscious, he passed away.
 BIOGRAPHICAL
 Gen. Slocum had been one Of Brooklyns dis tinguished citizens since the close of the war. He was a former president of the Brooklyn club and had been connected with many other organizations, social and military. He was born in Delphi, small town near Syracuse, N Y, September 2i, lS27, and had started to take an academic course when fortune threw West Point cadetship in his way. He en. tered the academy at the age of 2l and was graduated in 1852, the seventh man in q class Of forty-two. Immediately after gradu- ating he assumed command as second lieuten- ant of the Four h artillery and was ordered to Florida, where there was trouble with the Seminole Indians. It was his first experience of the hardships and discomforts of battle.
 The command was then ordered to Fort Moultrie and while there the young lieutenant began to read law as relief from the monot- ony of garrison life. After period Of lrksome regiment idleness he resigned, went back to Syracuse and began to practice law. e.
 In two years Mir. Slo;um was elected to the lower house of the legisla ture, and in 1859 he was chosen county treasurer of Onondaga count;, and was holding this office when the rebellion broke out He accepted command, as colonel of the Twenty-seventh New York vol unteers and led the regiment into battle at Bull Run, from which field he was carried severely wounded to the hospital, where he lay for several months He was then made brigadier general, and under Mcclellan held command of the left division of the army Of the Potomac and was afterwards made general Of volun teers To follow Gen. Slocum's military career 10 the close of the war would be to write history of some of the most impor- tant campaigns of the war At Gettvs. | burg he shared the honors with Meade the commander, and with Hancock and at Sher- mans request he took command of the army of Georgia in the great march to the sea.
 It was Gen Slocum who said at the Gettys- burg council Of war: Stay pnd fight 1t out" In September, 1885, he resigned. and, going to Brooklyn, became lawyer again That fall he was the democratic candidate for secretary | Of state, but was defeated He was sent to con gress fin 1888, again in lS7J. and third term in | 1884 In 1876 he was elected president of the | board of city works, Brooklyn, and was one of l the commissioners of the Brooklyn bridge He l advocated making the bridge free to the public | and had the satisfaction Of seeing his sugges l tions adopted in 1891