A statue of General Slocum was unveiled at Gettysburg in 1902. Click on the image to see The Post-Standard coverage of the event. (PDF).
For more on General Slocum
On the 85th anniversary of his birth, a journalist wrote a tribute to General Slocum that appeared in The Syracuse Herald on Sept. 24, 1911. (PDF)
In 1905, New York City unveiled a bronze statue of General Henry Warner Slocum on his horse with a raised saber in his right hand with President Theodore Roosevelt as the keynote speaker.
A copy of his death mask may be found here.
Photos of General Slocum may be found here
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