JULIUS M. SLOSSON -- 16th INFANTRYENLISTED AS A SERGEANT AT 19 - Captain William Wallace Wood from WestChazy personally recruited his whole company with men from West Chazyand Mooers. He assigned Julius M. Slosson to be the youngest of his foursergeants. The oldest of the sergeants was William Jamerson, who, at38-years-old, was twice as old as Julius.The men of Company K travelled to Albany where the regiment organized,and, by June 27, 1861, were in a train bound for Washington to serve fortwo years.They were assigned to the Army of Northeastern Virginia and encamped atAlexandria on the southern bank of the Potomac. In mid-July they foughtat Fairfax Court House and spent a few hours at First Bull Run beforereturning the 30 miles back to camp. In September and October, they hadminor battles at Pohick Church near Washington's Mount Vernon about 10miles downriver. Their winter quarters were set up near Fairfax Seminaryabout 5 miles west of Alexandria.Before the regiment were in their first engagement of 1862, on May7th, Julius was discharged for disability at Alexandria and came hometo his parents, Julius Slosson and Ann Lengcer.He started traveling west and by 1864, he was married to Frances Hicksin Aurora in Kane County, IL, a few miles west of Chicago. For a while,he and his family lived Missouri and then returned to Aurora where hesupported is family as a fireman on the Chicago, Burlington and QuincyRailroad.Julius died young. The same year he applied for a pension, 1886, hedied, and the pension was never awarded. Seven years later, a militarystone, made by Gross Brothers in Lee, MA, was placed for him in theMount Pleasant Cemetery in Waterloo, MI.
