| Summary: | (Uniform indicates rank of brigadier general.) Mexican War veteran. Commissioned as a captain in April 1861 in the Confederate Artillery. After promoting through the grades, Slaughter was promoted to brigadier general in March 1862. Major campaigns and battles include the siege of Fort Pickens, Shiloh, the Kentucky campaign. He fought in the last skirmish of the war near Brownsville, Texas, a month after Appomattox. Following a brief stay in Mexico, Slaughter worked as a civil engineer and postmaster in Mobile, Alabama. He died in Mexico City in January 1901 and is buried there. Sources: Boatner, Mark M. The Civil War Dictionary. New York: Vintage Books, 1988. Davis, William C., ed. The Confederate General. Vol. 5. National Historical Society, 1991.
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