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Slocum and made
Brady photographed and made portraits of many senior Union officers in the war, including Ulysses S. Grant, Nathaniel Banks, Don Carlos Buell, Ambrose Burnside, Benjamin Butler, Joshua Chamberlain, George Custer, David Farragut, John Gibbon, Winfield Hancock, Samuel P. Heintzelman, Joseph Hooker, Oliver Howard, David Hunter, John A. Logan, Irvin McDowell, George McClellan, James McPherson, George Meade, Montgomery C. Meigs, David Dixon Porter, William Rosecrans, John Schofield, William Sherman, Daniel Sickles, Henry Warner Slocum, George Stoneman, Edwin V. Sumner, George Thomas, Emory Upton, James Wadsworth, and Lew Wallace.
However, Meade's supplementary order to Slocum, which placed the V Corps as well as the XII Corps under his direction, explicitly made any retrograde movement dependent on the decisions of Maj. Gen. John F. Reynolds in Gettysburg.
In 2006, Slocum donated over 30, 000 puzzles to the Lilly Library at Indiana University, marking the first time a major collection of puzzles was made available in an academic setting.
Unfortunately for Williams, General Slocum was late in writing his official report of the battle, and Meade submitted his report for the army without acknowledging the critical contributions that Williams and XII Corps made to the Union defense.
They named the glider after Joshua Slocum, who made the first solo circumnavigation of the globe by sailboat.

Slocum and next
She sailed with Slocum, and, over the next thirteen years, bore him seven children, all at sea or foreign ports.
The Slocum family continued on their next ship, the 326-ton Aquidneck.
While there is an ongoing plot about Slocum preparing for a promotion at work, most of the book focuses on detailing various events from his life, ranging from early childhood to his predictions for the future, often in non-chronological order and with little if anything to connect one anecdote to the next.
The Slocum family continued to live on Cuttyhunk for the next two hundred years.

Slocum and found
However, the owner, strapped for cash, sold the vessel out from under Slocum, and he and Virginia found themselves stranded in the Philippines without a ship.
When Slocum found out he was going to be serving under Hooker, he submitted two letters of resignation to President Abraham Lincoln stating his derogatory opinion of Hooker as both an officer and a gentleman.
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.
After the news spread that the " Lost Sister of Wyoming " had been found, the story of Frances Slocum became famous.

Slocum and town
They are jailed by a befuddled town constable, Constable Slocum ( Walter Catlett ) for breaking into the house of Dr. Fritz Lehman ( Fritz Feld ).
In 1976, a small booklet on the town history was assembled by Addison historian Alice Slocum, followed in 1997 by a 225 page illustrated book by local author Dan Cherry.

Slocum and surrender
After the Confederate surrender, Slocum commanded the Department of the Mississippi.

Slocum and occupied
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.

Slocum and city
The uses of these islands vary: Davids ' Island, the former location of the U. S. Army ’ s Fort Slocum, is currently unoccupied but is slated for use as passive parkland ; Glen Island is a County park for passive and active recreation ; Huckleberry Island is largely undeveloped and has one of the largest rookeries for some shore bird species in western Long Island Sound ; Columbia Island was the former site of CBS television broadcast antennas and is currently unoccupied ; Echo Island is used by a private yacht club ; Execution Rocks is the site of a 19th century lighthouse listed on the National Register of Historic Places ; Pea Island is owned by Huguenot Yacht Club but remains undeveloped ; Goose Island is undeveloped ; Clifford, Harrison and Tank Islands are part of a nature preserve and city park ; and Oak and Pine Islands are used as private residences.
Norcross was in his 50s during the American Civil War and notable for being on the Committee of Citizens ( with William Markham ) that surrendered the city to Union General Henry Slocum.

Slocum and little
This embarrassing incident might have damaged his reputation except for two factors: the part of the battle he was supposed to march to join had ended, so he wasn't really needed ; and, because of a dispute between army commander Maj. Gen. George G. Meade and Slocum over the filing of their official reports, little public notice ensued.

Slocum and before
Shortly before Christmas 1870, Slocum and the Washington put in at Sydney, Australia.
Ownership of the Pato afforded Slocum the kind of freedom and autonomy he had never experienced before.
It was renamed " Slocum Air Force Base " in June 1949 ; this only lasted for a year before being turned back into an Army post in June 1950 .< ref >
Originally conceived as testbed for the thermal-power gliders before developing into a platform of their own, the Webb Slocum electric gliders have been widely deployed since 2003.

Slocum and .
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.
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.
In Slocum v. New York Insurance Co. ( 1913 ), the Supreme Court upheld this rule.
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 ).

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