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The Daily Dispatch: May 31, 1862., [Electronic resource], A tribute to the gallant dead. (search)
. Soon after, he married the daughter of Major Woodward, of Richmond, in Ray country, Missouri, with whom he lived happily until her death, which occurred in January, 1856. The issue of this marriage was six children, only two of whom are living; a daughter and a son, but seventeen years of age, who has been in the service as a private since the commencement of the war, and who has done his duty as a soldier. On the 2d of December, 1857, Gen. Slack was again married to a daughter of Hon. Gustavus Bower, of Paris, Missouri, by whom he had one child, which, being born after the second retreat from Lexington, he was not permitted to see. As Captain of a company of cavalry, Gen. Slack served with distinction in the Mexican war, under Col. Sterling Price, who then commanded a regiment of Missourian with as much ability, courage, and success as he now leads armies to battle and victory. At the well-contested battles of Cartada, Samboda, and Taos, where the enemy numbered three to on