Winfield Scott Hancock | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-03

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Winfield Scott Hancock


00:01:42 1 Early life and family
00:03:06 2 Early military career
00:03:16 2.1 Mexican War
00:04:45 2.2 Marriage and peacetime
00:06:31 3 Civil War
00:06:40 3.1 Joining the Army of the Potomac
00:08:35 3.2 Gettysburg
00:13:13 3.3 Virginia and the end of the war
00:15:41 4 Post-war military service
00:15:51 4.1 Execution of Lincoln assassination conspirators
00:16:44 4.2 Service on the Plains
00:17:46 4.3 Reconstruction
00:20:32 4.4 Return to the Plains
00:22:16 4.5 Command in the East and political ambitions
00:23:53 5 Election of 1880
00:24:03 5.1 Democratic convention
00:25:07 5.2 Campaign against Garfield
00:26:39 6 Later life
00:28:48 7 Legacy
00:30:49 8 Popular media
00:31:49 9 See also



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Winfield Scott Hancock (February 14, 1824 – February 9, 1886) was a career U.S. Army officer and the Democratic nominee for President of the United States in 1880. He served with distinction in the Army for four decades, including service in the Mexican–American War and as a Union general in the American Civil War. Known to his Army colleagues as "Hancock the Superb", he was noted in particular for his personal leadership at the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863. One military historian wrote, "No other Union general at Gettysburg dominated men by the sheer force of their presence more completely than Hancock." As another wrote, "his tactical skill had won him the quick admiration of adversaries who had come to know him as the 'Thunderbolt of the Army of the Potomac'." His military service continued after the Civil War, as Hancock participated in the military Reconstruction of the South and the Army's presence at the Western frontier.

Hancock's reputation as a war hero at Gettysburg, combined with his status as a Unionist and supporter of states' rights, made him a potential presidential candidate. His noted integrity was a counterpoint to the corruption of the era, for as President Rutherford B. Hayes said,If, when we make up our estimate of a public man, conspicuous both as a soldier and in civil life, we are to think first and chiefly of his manhood, his integrity, his purity, his singleness of purpose, and his unselfish devotion to duty, we can truthfully say of Hancock that he was through and through pure gold.When the Democrats nominated him for President in 1880, he ran a strong campaign, but was narrowly defeated by Republican James A. Garfield.