. Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania; genealogy--family history--biography; containing historical sketches of old families and of representative and prominent citizens, past and present. e army during the Civil war, enlistingMarch 23, 1863, at Philadelphia, in the United States Marine Corps. He wasunder Admirals Dupont, Dahlgren, Farragut and Porter, and served with theSouth Atlantic squadron in all its operations from the time he entered theservice, including the naval investment of Forts Wagner and Sumter, in Charles-ton harbor, S. C, serving at different times on the vessels Wabash andPawnee.

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. Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania; genealogy--family history--biography; containing historical sketches of old families and of representative and prominent citizens, past and present. e army during the Civil war, enlistingMarch 23, 1863, at Philadelphia, in the United States Marine Corps. He wasunder Admirals Dupont, Dahlgren, Farragut and Porter, and served with theSouth Atlantic squadron in all its operations from the time he entered theservice, including the naval investment of Forts Wagner and Sumter, in Charles-ton harbor, S. C, serving at different times on the vessels Wabash andPawnee. In the siege of Charleston he had charge of and commanded anaval battery on Morris Island, in the harbor, and after the capitulation ofFort Sumter, when the services of the marines were no longer required on theSouth Atlantic seaboard, the battalion of marines under the command ofColonel Reynolds, to which Mr. Slater belonged, was transferred to the marinebarracks at Washington, and there held in reserve for a considerable time. Inthe meantime the Confederate cruiser Alabama was committing depredationson the commerce of the United States, and the government fitted out a detail.

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