Fort Slocum (N.Y.)

found: NUCMC data from Nantucket Historical Association for Ray, E. Earl Ray/World War I letters collection, 1886-1944(Fort Slocum, N.Y.)

found: Roberts, R.B. Encycl. hist. forts, 1988(Fort Slocum; in L.I. Sound on David's Island; geographically a part of New Rochelle, Westchester County; estab. 1861 for the defense of N.Y.C.; during the years used for many purposes by the U.S. Army (i.e. school for cooks, prisoner-of-war camp, military hospital, etc.); closed in 1965 when Defense Information School relocated at Ft. Benjamin Harrison in Indiana; in 1968 property purchase by Consolid. Edison)