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The Daily Dispatch: May 31, 1862., [Electronic resource], A tribute to the gallant dead. (search)
, and Elkhorn, besides many others of minor importance, and he pays a handsome and graceful tribute to the departed hero in the following brief account. I send it to you that you may publish it. The hardships and courage of the Missouri volunteers are briefly and graphically delineated in this sketch of one of the bravest of our soldiers: General Slack, of Missouri. Brigadier-General William Yonely Slack was born in Kentucky. When three years of age, his father emigrated to Boone county, Missouri, and settled near Columbia. Here he learned the tanner's trade, which he soon relinquished, and studied law. When a young man he went to Livingston county, Missouri, and commenced practicing law at Chillicothe. 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 seve