THREE QUARTER STANDING VIEW OF GENERAL ADAM J. SLEMMER

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Image shows a bespectacled Slemmer posed with one hand resting on the back of a chair. He wears a single-breasted frock coat open to reveal a military vest and watch chain underneath. He also wears matching dark trousers. The frock coat does have shoulder straps but the contrast is not sharp enough to make out the rank.

Image is clear but it does have a sepia tone to it. Mount and paper have light surface dirt.

Reverse has a small paper label that reads M’CLEES…PHILADELPHIA. Across the top in faint modern pencil is “LT. SLEMMER.”

Adam Jacoby Slemmer was born in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania on January 24, 1828. He was raised in Norristown and graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1850 and was commissioned as a second lieutenant. He married Caroline Lane Reynolds in 1856. Their only child, a son, died young.

Slemmer served against the Seminoles in Florida, and then was stationed in garrisons along the Pacific. From 1855 to 1859, he taught at West Point.

In January 1861, he was in command of a body of troops at Fort Barrancas, Pensacola Harbor, Fla. On January 10, after the surrender of the Pensacola Navy Yard, he transferred his force to the Fort Pickens positioned in the same harbor. He held this fort against Confederate threat of attack and demands for surrender from Florida militia Colonel William Henry Chase, who had designed and constructed the fort as a captain in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The garrison was reinforced in April 1861 and Slemmer was relieved. Fort Pickens remained under Federal control for the duration of the war.

Promoted to major in the new 16th U.S. Infantry Regiment in May 1861, he was attached to General Buell's command and took part in the Corinth campaign and the relief of Nashville. He led his battalion into the Battle of Stones River in December, receiving a wound that incapacitated him for the rest of the war. He was taken prisoner the following day but released during the Confederate retreat. In April 1863, backdated to November 29, 1862, he became brigadier general of volunteers. He served in administrative posts in Ohio and New York.

In honor of his stand against the Confederates while in command at Fort Pickens a temporary earthwork in the Defenses of Washington, DC was named after him. Fort Slemmer was abandoned in 1865 and demolished.

In 1863, Slemmer served as president of the Board of Examiners for sick officers at Columbus and Cincinnati, Ohio.

By 1865, Slemmer was brevetted colonel in the Regular Army for meritorious conduct, and was commissioned lieutenant colonel of the 4th U.S. Infantry. On July 13, 1867, President Andrew Johnson nominated Slemmer for appointment to the grade of brevet brigadier general in the Regular Army, to rank from March 13, 1865, and the United States Senate confirmed the appointment on July 19, 1867.

Adam Slemmer died while in command of Fort Laramie from lingering effects of typhoid fever that he had contracted during the Civil War. He was buried in Montgomery Cemetery, near Norristown, Pennsylvania, on October 21, 1868.    [ad][PH:L]

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