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state authorities of Florida and Alabama. He was reinforced and ordered with his company to report at Fort Hamilton, N.Y., and was promoted major of 16th infantry, May 14, 1861. He was engaged in organizing and recruiting his regi- ment at Chicago, 111., July-Aug. 1861 ; was act- ing inspector-general of the department of the Ohio, August-November, 1861, and took part in the expedition from Parkersburg to Roane Court House, Va., in September, 1861. He was engaged in Bueirs operations in Alabama, Mississippi, Kentucky and Tennessee, taking part in the seige of Corinth, the movement to Louisville, Ky.,and in the advance to the relief of Nashville. He was promoted brigadier-general U.S. volunteers Nov. 29, 1863, and commanded a regiment in the Army of the Cumberland, in the Tennessee campaign. He was severe!}' wounded at Stone's river, and was brevetted lieutenant-colonel, Dec. 31, 1862, for gallant services at that battle. He was on sick leave of absence, March-July, 1863 ; and Avas president of the board of examination of sick and wounded officers, at Columbus and Cincinnati, Ohio, 1863-65. He was promoted lieutenant- colonel of 4th infantry, Feb. 8, 1864 ; and was brevetted colonel, and brigadier-general U.S.A. March 13, 1865, for gallant and meritorious services during the Rebellion. He was on garri- son duty at Fort Schuyler, and at Madison Bar- racks, Sacket Harbor, N.Y., 1865-66 ; was mus- tered out of volunteer service, Aug. 34, 1865, and was a member of the board of examiners of candidates for promotion in the army, 1866. He died at Fort Laramie, Kan., Oct. 7, 1868.

SLICER, Thomas Rogers, clergyman, was born in Washington, D.C., April 16, 1847 ; son of the Rev. Henry and Elizabeth (Coleman) Slicer ; grandson of Andrew and Elizabeth Slicer and of George and Susan (LePage) Roberts. He at- tended the Baltimore City college, Baltimore, Md. ; and was a Methodist mijiister in Maryland, Colo- rado, and New York, 1867-76. He was married, April 5, 1871, to Adeline, daughter of Theodore C. and Adeline Herbert, at Beverly, N.J. In 1881 he entered the Unitarian ministry and was pas- tor at Providence, R.I., 1881-90, at Buffalo, N.Y., 1890-97, and of the Church of All Souls, New York city, from 1897. The honorary degree of A.M. was conferred upon him by Dickinson college, Carlisle, Pa., in 1873. He is the author of : Doc- trines of the Unity of God in the First TJiree Cen- turies (1893) ; Tlie Great Affirmations of Religion (1900) ; The Poiuer and Promise of Liberal Faith (1900) ; One World at a Time (1903) ; Shelley— An Appreciation (1903).

SLIGHTER, Charles Sumner, mathematician and engineer, was born in St. Paul, Minn., April 16, 1864 ; son of Jacob Baldwin and Catherine (Huber) Slichter; grandson of John and Eliza-

beth (Bechtet) Slichter and of John and Fannie Hubcr. He was graduated from Northwestern university, Evanston, 111., A.B., 1885, M.S., 1887; and was at the University of Wisconsin, as in- structor in mathematics, 1886-89 ; assistant pro- fessor of mathematics, 1889-93, and professor of applied mathematics from 1893. He was mar- ried, Dec. 23, 1890, to Mary Louise, daughter of John A. and Maria McKinnon Byrne of Madison, Wis. He served as commissioner and secretary to the Wisconsin Geological and Natural History survey, 1900-03, and was president of the Wis- consin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters, 1900-03. He carried on special investigations on the motions of ground waters for the Hydrograph- ic division of the U.S. geological survey from 1894 ; and on the reorganization of the hydro- graphic work in 1903, was made consulting en- gineer. With C. A. Van Velzer, he is the joint author of : Advanced Algebra (Parts I. and II., 1888) ; Logarithmic and Trigonometric Tables (1891) ; School Algebra (1893) ; University Al- gebra (1892) ; Manual of Four Place Logarithms (1893) ; and author of : Harmonic Curves of Tliree Frequencies (1898) ; Note of the Pi'essure within the Earth (1898) ; Theoretical Investiga- tions of the Motions of Ground TFo^ers (1899) ; The Mechanics of Slow Motions (1900); Logarithmic Tables for Rapid Commutation (1901) ; A New Method of Determining the Velocities of Under- ground Waters (1902) ; The Motions of Under- ground Waters (1903) ; Recent Criticism of American Scholarship (1903) ; and numerous shorter contributions to technical and scientific papers.

SLIDELL, John, statesman, was born in New York city, in 1793. He was graduated from Co- lumbia college in 1810, studied law in New York city and practised in New Orleans, La., 1819-35. He was the unsuccessful candidate for represen- tative in the 21st congress in 1828 ; was U.S. dis- trict attorney for Louisiana, 1829-33, and was defeated for the U.S. senatorship in 1834. He was U.S. minister to Mexico in 1841 ; and a States' rights Democratic representative in the 28th and 29th congresses, 1843-45, resigning in 1845, hav- ing been appointed U.S. minister to Mexico to adjust the difficulties arising from the annexa- tion of Texas to the Union. He was refused rec- ognition by the Mexican government, and re- turned Jan. 26, 1847, He was again defeated for U.S. senator in 1849 ; was appointed U.S. minis- ter to Central America in 1853 ; was elected U.S. senator to fill the vacancy caused by the resig- nation of Pierre Soule, to accept the mission to France, and took his seat Dec. 5, 1853. He was re-elected in 1855, for the term ending March 3, 1861, and retired from the U.S. senate, Feb. 4, 1861, to become Confederate States commissioner