Henry Warner Slocum - Namesake

Namesake

A steamship, the General Slocum, was named for him; it had a disastrous fire on board in 1904 with much loss of life. Fort Slocum, New York, guards the entrance to New York Harbor from Long Island Sound. A statue of Slocum is in Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn.

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