Henry Warner Slocum Sr., was a Union general during the American Civil War and later served in the United States House of Representatives from New York. During the war, he was one of the youngest major generals in the Army and fought numerous major battles in the Eastern Theater and in Georgia and the Carolinas. While commanding a regiment, a brigade, a division, and a corps in the Army of the Potomac, he saw action at First Bull Run, the Peninsula Campaign, Harpers Ferry, South Mountain, Antietam, and Chancellorsville.
Alexandria, Va., October 6, 1861. SIR: I received information on the 3d instant that a body of the enemy’s cavalry was at Pohick Church, about 12 miles from these headquarters,…
HEADQUARTERS SECOND BRIGADE, Alexandria, Va., October 6, 1861. SIR: I received information on the 3d instant that a body of the enemy’s cavalry was at Pohick Church, about 12 miles…
HEADQUARTERS TWELFTH CORPS, Harper’s Ferry, Va., December 4, 1862. About.4,000 infantry and artillery, under General Geary, started on @ reconnaissance Tuesday morning, with instructions to go to Winchester, if deemed…
HEADQUARTERS TWELFTH CORPS, Harper’s Ferry, December 8, 1862. GENERAL: Your dispatch of this date just received. On the 6th instant I telegraphed you as follows: General Geary has just returned…
Monocacy Junction, Mp. Monocacy Junction, Mp., June 21, 1863. (Copy received, War Department, 8 p. m.) Col. G. H. SHarpg, Deputy Provost-Marshal, Army of the Potomac: At 4p. m. 40…
LEESBURG, V. A. LEESBURG, V. A., June 24, 1863. General D. BUTTERFIELD, Headquarters Army of the Potomac: I have no information as to the Shenandoah, but will try to obtain…
EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, September 19, 1863. By General Meade’s dispatch to you of yesterday, it appears that he desires your views and those of the Government as to whether he…