While the final combat of the campaign was being worked out at Jonesborough, Thomas, on Sherman's instructions, ordered Slocum, now commanding the Twentieth Corps, to make an effort to occupy Atlanta if he could do so without exposing his bridgehead to a counterattack.

Slocum made his reconnaissanace the next morning, found the town empty, accepted the surrender of the mayor and occupied the city a little before noon.

Graham will be recognized for his meritorious service to baseball and will get the William J. Slocum Memorial Award.

* Selkirk is mentioned in Sailing Alone Around The World by Joshua Slocum.

During his stay on the Juan Fernández Islands, Slocum runs across a marker commemorating Selkirk's stay.

Joshua Slocum was one of the first people to carry out a long-distance sailing voyage for pleasure, circumnavigating the world between 1895 and 1898.

Despite opinion that such a voyage was impossible and his having retired, Slocum rebuilt a derelict sloop Spray and sailed her single-handed around the world.

The two leading Democratic candidates were Roswell P. Flower and Henry W. Slocum, but their factions deadlocked, and the convention could not agree on a nominee.

* 1898 – The first solo circumnavigation of the globe is completed by Joshua Slocum from Briar Island, Nova Scotia.

Since the solo circumnavigation of Joshua Slocum in the 1890s, long-distance cruising under sail has inspired thousands of otherwise normal people to explore distant seas and horizons.

Later cases have undermined Slocum, but generally only when the evidence is overwhelming, or if a specific law provides narrow guidelines by which there can be no reasonable question as to the required outcome, may the court enter " judgment as a matter of law " or otherwise set aside the jury's findings.

* June 15, 1904 — A fire aboard the steamboat General Slocum in New York City's East River kills 1, 021.

* June 15 – A fire aboard the steamboat General Slocum in New York City's East River kills 1, 021.

* July 3 – Joshua Slocum completes a 3-year solo circumnavigation of the world.

* March 4 – Samuel Slocum, American inventor ( d. 1861 )

** Joshua Slocum, Canadian seaman and adventurer ( d. 1909 )

Joshua Slocum, in his 1899 book Sailing Alone Around the World refers to Nova Scotians as being the only or true Yankees.

* Wolfe, J. C., DeFleur, M. L. & Slocum, W. L. ( 1973 ).

More settlers from New England came to the area in the late 18th century, gradually establishing mills and other small businesses in a village that became known as Slocum Hollow.

* The pop band Sixpence None the Richer's founding members Matt Slocum and Leigh Nash are from New Braunfels.

* Puzzles Old and New, by Jerry Slocum & Jack Botermans, 1986

* New Book of Puzzles, by Jerry Slocum & Jack Botermans, 1992

John Jay Slocum, in New York, who encouraged her to repeat it to a wider audience.

It was also the second deadliest disaster in New York City – after the burning of the General Slocum on June 15, 1904 – until the destruction of the World Trade Center 90 years later.

* Fort Slocum ( later, Slocum AFB ), New York, 3 June 1946

Henry Warner Slocum ( September 24, 1827 – April 14, 1894 ), was a Union general during the American Civil War and later served in the United States House of Representatives from New York.

Slocum was born in Delphi, a hamlet in Onondaga County, New York.

At the outbreak of the Civil War, Slocum was appointed colonel of the 27th New York Infantry, which was a two-year regiment mustered in at Elmira, New York.

Slocum ran as the Democratic candidate for Secretary of State of New York in 1865, but was defeated by fellow Gettysburg General Francis C. Barlow.

Henry Slocum died in Brooklyn, New York, and is interred at Green-Wood Cemetery, where Gen. Porter also is interred.

Fort Slocum, New York, guards the entrance to New York Harbor from Long Island Sound.

On June 15, 1904, the ship General Slocum catches fire and sinks in New York's East River.

Irwin arrived in New York City the same day as a major disaster — the sinking of the General Slocum.

* Little Germany, New York, also known as Kleindeutschland, a German neighborhood in New York that rapidly declined after the General Slocum disaster in 1904

* Fort Slocum ( New York )

But Schrank was heartbroken not just because he had lost his second set of parents but because his first and only girlfriend Emily Ziegler had died in the General Slocum disaster on New York's East River.

Fort Slocum, New York was a US military base which occupied Davids ' Island in the western end of Long Island Sound in New Rochelle, New York from 1867-1965.

On that tragic day, she ( at age 11 ) was one of the passengers aboard the General Slocum when it caught fire on the East River in New York.

A number of noteworthy vessels, including the New York City Fire Department fireboat Abram S. Hewitt, which was involved in the rescue of survivors of the 1904 General Slocum tragedy and was the last coal-burning fireboat in operation in the FDNY's fleet, can be found here.

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