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Civil War Soldiers - Slemmer
| Slemmer, Adam J., brigadier-general,
U.S. Army, was born in Montgomery county, Pa., in 1828. He was
graduated at the West Point military academy in July, 1850, and
assigned to the 1st artillery. He took a conspicuous part in the
campaign against the Seminole Indians in Florida, served on the
California frontier for four years, and was assistant professor of
mathematics at West Point, 1855-59. He was afterward assigned to
garrison duty at Fort Moultrie, S. C., and in 1860 was transferred to
Florida. When the war broke out he occupied Fort Barrancas in
Pensacola harbor with a small body of soldiers. Later he was
instrumental in holding Fort Pickens until relieved by Col. Harvey
Brown, thus preserving the key to the Gulf of Mexico. He was promoted
major of the 16th infantry in May, 1861; was inspector-general of the
Department of the Ohio, and participated in the siege of Corinth and
the movement for the relief of Nashville, Tenn. He became
brigadier-general of volunteers, Nov. 29, 1862, and took an active
part in the battle of Stone's river, Dec. 31, where he received wounds
so severe that his field service was practically ended. From July,
1863, to the close of the war he served on an examining board as its
president. On Feb. 8, 1864, he was promoted lieutenant-colonel of the
4th infantry, and in March, 1865, he won the brevets of colonel and
brigadier- general, U. S. A., for gallant conduct. Gen. Slemmer left
the volunteer service in August of the same year and spent the balance
of his life in command at Fort Laramie, Dak., where he died of heart
disease, Oct. 7, 1868. Source: The Union Army: A History of Military Affairs in the Loyal
States 1861-1865, Volume 8 Biographical, 1908
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