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Hardcover. Condición: Very good. Green cloth decorated in black & gilt, binding good with some minor scuffs, 11 x 8 1/2 inches, tight. Fine steel-engraved portrait of Slocum with printed signature and tissue guard as frontispiece; many additional plates & maps. 325 clean pp. The condition is very good and might be an upgrade for you if you already own a copy. Cover title: Slocum and His Men. A collection of letters and speeches on the occasion of the dedication of the Slocum Monument at Gettysburg. Includes a letter from Lt.-Gen. James Longstreet, and addresses by Maj.-Gen. Daniel E. Sickles; Governor Benjamin B. Odell, Jr.; Gen. Jams C. Robers; Col. Archie E. Baxter; as well as a Life of General Slocum and the History of the Twelfth Corps and of the Twentieth Corps. The maps are of the Battlefields of Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and Lookout Mountain.Henry Warner Slocum, Sr. (1827-1894), b. Delphi Falls, NY; d. Brooklyn, NY. Slocum was one of the youngest Union senior officers during the American Civil War; he later served as a Democrat in the US House of Representatives from New York. He was a West Point graduate who tutored his roommate, Philip Sheridan. He led a brilliant military career during the war, and is credited with decisive action in the Union victory at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.