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General Slocum

Caption: General Slocum
Additional Description: General Slocum was a 1852 graduate of West Point. As the battle of Gettysburg began, General Meade gave Slocum operational control of a "wing" of the Army, comprised of the XII and V Corps. However his vacillations on July 1 have been criticized by many historians. After Gettysburg, Slocum served in the Western theater, under General Sherman.
(Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1977. No. 0984, Call Number: LC-B813- 1876 A[P&P])
Submitted: November 21, 2008, by Craig Swain of Leesburg, Virginia.
Database Locator Identification Number: p45813
File Size: 0.322 Megabytes

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