Brady, Mathew B., 1823-1896 [Vignette of Henry Slocum in civilian clothing]

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GLC#
GLC05111.01.0473-View header record
Type
Images
Date
circa 1861
Author/Creator
Brady, Mathew B., 1823-1896
Title
[Vignette of Henry Slocum in civilian clothing]
Place Written
New York
Pagination
1 salt print : b&w Height: 47.6 cm, Width: 39.8 cm
Primary time period
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
Sub-Era
The American Civil War

Vignetted half-length standing portrait of Union general Henry Slocum, Sr. in Napoleonic pose. Clothing, hands, and parts of face heavily painted over. Water stains at the edge. Slocum led and participated in several campaigns throughout the American Civil War, including the Maryland Campaign and the Carolina Campaign. He resigned his commission on September 28, 1865 and returned to New York, where he unsuccessfully ran for New York secretary of state that year. Slocum served three terms as a Democratic Congressman in the U.S. House of Representatives (from 1869 to 1873 and from 1883 to 1885).

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