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	Maj. Gen. Henry W. Slocum's Official Report (OR) For The Battle Of Gettysburg
		GENERAL: I inclose herewith the report of General T. Ruger of operations of the First Division, Twelfth Corps, at the battle of Gettysburg, together with the reports of his brigade and regimental commanders.
		General Ruger, width a large portion of his division, was ordered to New York City soon after the battle, and immediately after his return from New York the corps was ordered to this department.
		I know General Meade to be a high-toned gentleman, and I believe him to be a commander of superior merit and of honest judgment, and I confess to have read that part of his official report relating to the Twelfth Corps with a mixed feeling of astonishment and regret.
	www.civilwarhome.com /slocumgettysburgor.htm (4960 words)

	Union - 6th Corps
		General William B. Franklin was appointed corps commander, and General H. Slocum succeeded to the command of Franklin's Division.
		General Slocum's able services were acknowledged by his promotion to the command of the Twelfth Corps, and General W. Brooks succeeded Slocum in command of the First Division, while General A. Howe succeeded to the command of Smith's (2nd) Division.
		General Sedgwick, who had succeeded to the corps command, ordered an assault on Marye's Heights, and that strong position which had defied the assaults of the previous battle, was now carried by the Sixth Corps at the point of the bayonet.
	www.civilwararchive.com /CORPS/6thcorp.htm (1633 words)

	93rd Illinois Infantry
		General Slocum, fully aware of the threatening danger, promptly brought up all his available forces, hastily constructed light barricades in the timber, and at once assumed the defensive, knowing that General Sherman would hasten the right wing to his assistance.
		General Johnston's flanks were well protected by swamps, and he made very strong intrenchments in his front on the night of the 19th, after the battle.
		General Johnston, fearing that his retreat might be soon cut off, as it would have been, had he remained, withdrew his army to Smithfield, on the north side of the Neuse River.
	www.illinoiscivilwar.org /cw93-hist-ch10d.html (2105 words)

	slocum
		Slocum was promoted to Brigadier General in August, and his unit served in the Defenses of Washington, September 1861 to March, 1862, and participated in McClellan's Peninsular Campaign, the Seige of Yorktown, action at West Point, the Battle of Gaines Mill, the Battle of Glendale, and the Battle of Malvern Hill (14).
		Gen. Greene wrote, "To the discernment of General Slocum who saw the danger to which the army would be exposed by the movement ordered by Meade to deplete the Right Wing...is due the honor of having saved the army from a great and perhaps fatal disaster" (17).
		General Slocum's men fought at Wauhatchie and Lookout Mountain, and in April of 1864, Henry Slocum was ordered to command the fortified post and District of Vicksburg.
	library.morrisville.edu /local_history/sites/slocum.html (1721 words)

	General Slocum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		By the time the General Slocum was beached at North Brother Island, just off the Bronx shore, an estimated 1,021 passengers had been killed by fire or drowning.
		The remains of the General Slocum were recovered and converted into a barge, which sank in a storm in 1911.
		The General Slocum disaster is at the center of the novel The Unresolved, by T.K. Welsh.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/General_Slocum (1364 words)

	Henry Warner Slocum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Slocum was born in Delphi, a hamlet in Onondaga County, New York.
		Slocum was appointed major general of volunteers on July 4, 1862, the second youngest man in the Army to achieve that rank.
		During the summer of 1864, Slocum commanded the District of Vicksburg and the XVII Corps of the Department of the Tennessee.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Henry_Warner_Slocum (2019 words)

	General Sherman in the Carolinas
		General Woods had deployed his leading brigade, which was skirmishing forward, but he reported that the bridge was gone, and that a considerable force of the enemy was on the other side.
		General Howard was still with me, and, riding down the street which led by the right to the Charleston depot, we found it and a large storehouse burned to the ground, but there were, on the platform and ground near by, piles of cotton bags filled with corn and corn-meal, partially burned.
		General Davis had infinite difficulty in reconstructing his bridge, and was compelled to use the fifth chains of his wagons for anchor-chains, so that we were delayed nearly a week in that neighborhood.
	www.sonofthesouth.net /union-generals/sherman/memoirs/general-sherman-carolina.htm (16937 words)

	GENERAL SLOCUM
		After studying the reports on the sinking of the General Slocum, after she was raised and refitted into a barge called the Maryland, I decided highest probability area stemmed from the report of the Army Corp of Engineers who placed it a mile off shore abreast of Corson's Inlet.
		The General Slocum was an excursion steamer, reminiscent of lazy days on the Mississippi when side paddle wheelers were the most modern mode of river travel.
		The Slocum ran aground on a rocky shore with a steep slope.
	www.numa.net /expeditions/general_slocum.html (694 words)

	Disaster in New York Harbor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The General Slocum was later described as a "deathtrap," "nothing but tinder and fresh paint." There had never even been a fire drill, but this was typical pleasure ship operation for that time.
		As the General Slocum paddled on for 30 long minutes, the wind from the boat's speed fanned the fire and it became an inferno of flames and smoke.
		The hull of the General Slocum was raised, renovated, and relaunched as a coal tanker, the Maryland.
	www.angelfire.com /zine/secondsight/slocum.html (1422 words)

	Maj. Gen. William B. Franklin's Official Report (OR) For The Battle Of Antietam
		The advance of General Slocum was made with admirable steadiness through a well-directed fire from the batteries on the mountain, the brigade of Colonel Bartlett taking the lead, followed at proper intervals by the brigades of General Newton and Colonel Torbert.
		General Brooks Occupied the woods after a slight resistance, and then advanced, simultaneously with General Slocum, rapidly and in good order, to the crest of the mountain.
		General Couch's division had been ordered by the commanding general to repair to the field after it had made a long march toward Maryland Heights, and accordingly arrived there early on the morning of the 18th.
	www.civilwarhome.com /franklinantietamor.htm (2563 words)

	General Slocum Information
		By the time the General Slocum was beached at North Brother Island, just off the Bronx shore, an estimated 1,021 passengers had been killed by fire or drowning.
		The remains of the General Slocum were recovered and converted into a barge, which sank in a storm in 1911.
		On board the Slocum, where the Captain has ultimate safety authority, he did not demand that hoses and faulty lifejackets be replaced.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/General_Slocum (1289 words)

	1904 General Slocum Disaster Brooklyn Eagle
		He said the said that the General Slocum came up in a cloud of smoke and fire, its whistles screaming and answering warnings from a number of tugs, launches and rowboats, which were hastening to the big steamboat¹s aid.
		As the Slocum proceeded, a blazing mass, I lost sight of her around the bend, at the head of North Brother Island, but I am sure that scores of people were drowned between One Hundred and Thirty-fourth street and the point at which she was beached.
		Subscriptions to the fund for the relief of the survivors of the disaster to the steamboat General Slocum continue to pour in at the offices of Mayor MC CLELLAN, Herman RIDDER, the chairman, and Jacob H. SCHIFF, the treasurer of the Mayor¹s relief committee.
	www.bklyn-genealogy-info.com /Newspaper/Slocum/Slocum.html (16579 words)

	MGen Henry Warner Slocum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Slocum was promoted to Brigadier General in August, and his unit served in the Defenses of Washington, September 1861 to March, 1862, and participated in McClellan's Peninsular Campaign, the Seige of Yorktown, action at West Point, the Battle of Gaines Mill, the Battle of Glendale, and the Battle of Malvern Hill.
		After General Mansfield was killed at Antietam, Slocum was given command of the XII Corps, and with them participated in all the major engagements of the Army of the Potomac from Fredericksburg to Gettysburg.
		In September, 1865, General Slocum resigned from the army and resumed the practice of law in Brooklyn, New York.
	aotw.org /officers.php?officer_id=119 (878 words)

	Divide and Conquer - The Battle of Bentonville
		Rebel general Joseph E. Johnston was charged with the task of halting the Union advance.
		On March 19, 1865, General Slocum’s corps, on the left wing of Sherman’s army, made first contact when they encountered the entrenched defenses of the Rebels.
		Slocum was slowly but surely pushed back by the determined onslaught.
	home.earthlink.net /~divideandconquer/Battles/civil_war/bentonville.htm (651 words)

	Major General Henry Slocum's Report of the Chancellorsville Campaign
		The passage of the river was at once effected by the cavalry, followed by Generals Ruger's and Jackson's brigades, of Williams' division, and all the artillery of the corps.
		This work, under the supervision of Generals Geary and Kane, was soon completed, and the remainder of the Twelfth Corps, with its pack trains and the entire Eleventh Corps, crossed the river on this bridge.
		This note was at once referred to the commanding general, and, with his consent, I sent nearly all the First Division, under General Williams, to the support of General Birney, and at the same time advanced a portion of the Second Division, under General Geary, to feel the enemy in its front.
	www.swcivilwar.com /SlocumReportChancellorsville.html (2115 words)

	Sample text for Library of Congress control number 2002033008
		Slocum parlayed his military record into a successful law practice and three terms in Congress between 1869 and 1885.
		At 264 feet in length and weighing 1,281 tons, the Slocum was not the largest boat of its kind in the harbor.
		By the time of the General Slocum's launch in 1891, massive steam-driven ocean liners routinely crossed the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, carrying thousands of passengers and tons of cargo.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/samples/random051/2002033008.html (2522 words)

	General Slocum
		for 75,000 troops, and her prompt and generous responses to all subsequent calls by the General Government for aid against rebellion, from a prominent feature in the history of the war for the Union.
		General SHERMAN, by intrusting to him the left column of his advancing army in the march through Georgia, gave hint a confidence which was richly deserved, and which results have fully justified.
		GENERAL H. We acquired this leaf for the purpose of digitally preserving it for your research and enjoyment.
	www.sonofthesouth.net /leefoundation/civil-war/1865/general-slocum.htm (921 words)

	This Day in History 1827: General Henry Slocum is born
		He was promoted to brigadier general after Bull Run, and by the time the army embarked on the Peninsular campaign in May 1862, he was a major general.
		During the Chancellorsville campaign of May 1863, Slocum had developed an intense dislike for General Joseph Hooker, who was commander of the Army of the Potomac at the time.
		Selected to command one wing of the Federal army during Sherman's famous "March to the Sea," Slocum remained with Sherman as the Yankees pacified the Carolinas, and was present at the surrender of General Joseph Johnston's army at the end of the war.
	www.history.com /tdih.do?action=tdihArticleYear&id=2330 (566 words)

	General Lockwood, Henry Hayes
		In August of 1861 he was appointed by the U.S. Congress as a Brigadier General of Volunteers, a position he held until the end of the Civil War.
		In June of 1863 he was appointed to command the 2nd Brigade of the 1st Division of the XII Corp under Major General Henry Warner Slocum.
		General Slocum was in command of the right wing at Gettysburg, which left General A. Williams, of the First Division, in command of the corps; General Thos.
	www.russpickett.com /history/lockwood.htm (727 words)

	Newhouse A1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Adella Wotherspoon with memorabilia of the 1904 fire that killed more than 1,000 people aboard the ferry General Slocum: a New York Times clipping with a photograph of her on her mother's lap during the trial that followed the fire, and shoes that belonged to her sister, who died.
		Adella Wotherspoon, 98, a retired teacher from New Jersey, is one of two living survivors of the General Slocum, which was the worst fire disaster in New York prior to Sept. 11.
		Wotherspoon was 6 months old when her family boarded the General Slocum; her parents were among the survivors, but her two sisters, two cousins and two aunts died.
	www.newhouse.com /archive/story1a032802.html (957 words)

	Greater Astoria Historical Society - Slocum Sisaster Events
		While the TITANIC was a great trans-Atlantic ocean liner carrying the rich and famous, the SLOCUM was a wooden hull, side wheel excursion boat, carrying the poor from the lower East side of Manhattan trying to escape the summer heat on a sail to a picnic.
		The GENERAL SLOCUM was chartered by the Reverend George F. Haas, Pastor of St. Mark’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, 325 East 6
		Until the terrorists attack on the World Trade Center Towers of September 11, 2001, the Slocum disaster was the largest fire fatality in New York City history and is still the worst inland waters peacetime disaster in the nation’s history.
	www.astorialic.org /events/slocum_ann2_p.php (813 words)

	Major General Henry Warner Slocum
		I was interested in General Slocum for who he was and for what he did during the American Civil War, only secondarily for any connection he might have had with my family.
		By 1862, he had been promoted to major general and was, at that time, the second youngest in the country to attain that rank.
		Slocum prided himself on serving throughout the war without friction, and the way he accomplished this was to always avoid assuming responsibility.
	www.pausingtoremember.net /slocum.html (844 words)

	Forgetting — and Remembering — the Slocum (Gotham Gazette. October 25, 2004)
		The story of the General Slocum tragedy begins in the thriving German neighborhood known as Kleindeutschland, or Little Germany, on Manhattan's Lower East Side.
		Additionally, the Slocum tragedy was a “concentrated tragedy.” The majority of those killed were from a single parish and living within a 40-block area.
		It will exist for succeeding generations, not as a memory but as a cautionary tale of greed and carelessness and a story of unspeakable loss and extraordinary courage.
	www.gothamgazette.com /article/20041025/200/1161 (1187 words)

	Adella Wotherspoon, 100; last survivor of '04 ferry disaster - The Boston Globe
		NEW YORK -- Adella Wotherspoon, believed to be the last survivor of the deadly 1904 fire and sinking of the excursion ferry General Slocum, has died.
		The General Slocum fire and sinking was the city's deadliest tragedy until Sept. 11, 2001, and one of the worst maritime disasters in American history.
		Wotherspoon said she had no direct memory of the General Slocum and went on many sea cruises with her husband.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/obituaries/articles/2004/02/05/adella_wotherspoon_100_last_survivor_of_04_ferry_disaster (313 words)

	They were Earth's purist children - young and fair
		The "General" was typical of the riverboats of the era; wooden hull, decks close to the water, promenade decks guarded by two tall smoke stacks.
		Underneath the gaiety the "Slocum" was a deathtrap.
		Uninspected for years, the wooden frame of the ship was caked in layers of paint and varnish, her crew had never performed a fire drill and her fire hoses were rotten from neglect.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/titanic_retired/24410 (476 words)

	QUEENS KIDS REMEMBER GENERAL SLOCUM TRAGEDY WITH TOMPKINS SQUARE DAFFODIL PLANTINGS - Daily Plant Newsletter
		General Slocum’s crew was young and inexperienced and every safety measure failed immediately: the ship’s rotten fire hoses burst when the water was turned on; the lifejackets were filled with disintegrated cork that had lost its buoyancy; and the lifeboats could not be dislodged.
		The General Slocum tragedy brought the decline of Kleindeutschland.
		Today, the General Slocum disaster is memorialized in two places: in Tompkins Square Park, Manhattan where the General Slocum Memorial Fountain is located; and in Middle Village, Queens, where many of Kleindeutschland’s residents moved after the tragedy, a memorial service is held every year in the neighborhood’s Lutheran cemetary.
	www.nycgovparks.org /sub_newsroom/daily_plants/daily_plant_main.php?id=18389 (596 words)

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