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Warner Park

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Warner Park
Warner Park
Warner Park
Warner Park
Warner Park
Warner Park
Warner Park
Warner Park
Warner Park
Warner Park
Warner Park
Warner Park
Warner Park
Warner Park
Warner Park
Warner Park
Warner Park
Warner Park
Warner Park
Warner Park
Warner Park
Warner Park
Warner Park
Warner Park
Warner Park
Phone:
+1 608-266-4711

Hours:
Sunday4am - 10pm
Monday4am - 10pm
Tuesday4am - 10pm
Wednesday4am - 10pm
Thursday4am - 10pm
Friday4am - 10pm
Saturday4am - 10pm


Henry Warner Slocum, Sr. , was a Union general during the American Civil War and later served in the United States House of Representatives from New York. During the war, he was one of the youngest major generals in the Army and fought numerous major battles in the Eastern Theater and in Georgia and the Carolinas. While commanding a regiment, a brigade, a division, and a corps in the Army of the Potomac, he saw action at First Bull Run, the Peninsula Campaign, South Mountain, Antietam, Chancellorsville, and Harpers' Ferry. At Gettysburg, he was the senior Union General in the Field, under Gen. George G. Meade. During the battle, he held the Union right from Culp's Hill to across the Baltimore Pike. His successful defense of Culp's Hill was crucial to the Union victory at Gettysburg. After the fall of Vicksburg on the Mississippi River, splitting the southern Confederacy, Slocum was appointed military commander of the district. Slocum participated in the Atlanta Campaign and was the first commander to enter the city on September 2, 1864. He then served as occupation commander of Atlanta. Slocum was appointed the commander of the left wing of Gen. William T. Sherman's famous March to the Sea to Savannah on the Atlantic coast through Georgia and afterwards turning north through the Carolinas, commanding the XIV and XX Corps, comprising the Army of Georgia. During this campaign, he captured the then state capital of Georgia, Milledgeville and the Atlantic coast seaport of Savannah. In the Carolinas campaign, Slocum's army saw victories in the battles of Averasborough and Bentonville, North Carolina. The March to the Sea and the Carolinas campaign were crucial to the overall Union victory in the Civil War. After the surrender of Confederate forces, Slocum was given command of the Department of Mississippi. Slocum declined an officer's appointment in the postwar Regular Army. He was a successful political leader in the North, a businessman and railroad developer.
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