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BUYS AND SELLS EXCHANGE
SOME ACCOUNT OF THE DEMO
CRATIC CANDIDATES.
,fAJoR-6IF IF.NERAI. HANCOf,K.
From the Cincinnati Enquirer.

nominee of the democratic party fC
! president for the coming campaign
was born in Montgomery county
Pennsylvania, February IA, 1872
| He graduated at West Point in 1874
and was for two years on frontie
duty in the Seminole and Mexica
wars, and was breveted first lieu
tenant for gallant and meritoriou
conduct in Che battles of Contrera
and Cherubusco, August 20, 1847
He was regimental quarter-maste
from June, 1848, to 1849, and adju
| tant since 1919. Upon the breaking
out of the civil war he was, Septem
Der %, 1861, appointed brigadiel
general of volunteers. ii.4
After General Heintzelmann
who at Yorktown had been charges
by General Mcclellan with the di
reetion of the pursuit, had been. su
perseded by an order which PLACED
Gen. Sumner in command at tn
front, Gen. Summer at once sen
Gen. Hancock, before Hooker's ap
plication for relief reached him
with his brigade to the extrem,
right. Gen. Hancock accomplished
the fianking movement required
of him by a brilliant bayonet charge
and carried the rebel works on thu
right with a loss of only fifty men
OF this fight at Williamsburg, Gen
Mcclellan says in his report: "Be
fore Gems. Smith and Negley coulC
reach the field of HancOek's opera
tions though they moved with grea
rapidity he had been confronted By
superior force. Feigning toretreat
slowly, he awaited their onset, anG
then turned upon them. After
some terrific volleys of musl1etry
he charged them with the bayonet
routing and dispensing their whole
force, Killing, capturing and wound.
ing from five hundred to six hun.
dred men, he himself losing only
thirty-One men. He next came
prominently before the country in
the battle of Antietam, Maryland,
September IL, 1862, when he sue
ceeded Gen. Richardson, who fell
mortally wounded in the command
of Richardson's division of Gen.
Summers corps. The battle ended
indecisively, and has been justly
styled by an an able chronicler,
"the blOodiest day that America
ever saw"
The battle of Fredericksburg was
fought December 1918, 1862. Gen.
Hancock commanded a corps in
which was Meagher's Irish brigade
composed of the sixty-third, sixty
ninth and eighty-eighth New York,
twenty-eighth Massachusetts, and
one hundred and sixteenth Penn
sylvania. Hancock's and French's
corps successively climbed up Ma
rye's hill, which was covered with
rebel batteries. Men never fought
more braVely or fruitlessly, or were
in turn submitted to more hopeless
The heights were liter
ally girdled with batteries that
were raised high above each other,
all carefully trained upon the ap-
proaches from fredericksburg. Be
hind was a deadly stone wall-Our
making no impression on
its massive solidity-Which shell
tered Barksdale's brigade, and
poured the deadlieSt storm of mus
kerry into our faces as soon as our
columns came within range. The
Union losses were fifteen thousand
men. The detailed reports of Long
street and Jackson represent the
rebel losses at between five and six
thousand.
The next prominent battle Of the
war that General Hancock took
part in was that of Gettysburg, Ju-
ly / 1868. General Meade was at
when, at l p. m., news
came of fighting at Gettysburg, and
that Gen. Reynolds had been
killed. He at once ordered Gen.
Hancock to turn over his (second)
corps to GibbOn and hasten to Get
tysburg and take command. Gen.
Hancock reached Cemetery hill at
half-past three in the afternoon,
when the rear of our broken first
and fourth corps were retreating in
great disorder through the village.
The enemy were in hot pursuit.
had already formed a di-
vision on Cemetery hill, and Gen.
Hancock at once ordered Wads-
worth to post his (the 1900 out of
900 men that he had led in the
with) on Culp's hill, to the
right, while Gen. Geary, of the adj
vance division Of SlOcum's twelfth
corps, was directed to take position
On high ground toward Round-Top,
on our left. Meade had requested
Hancock to judge whether Gettys-
burg was the proper place to fight
decisive battle, or whether the army
should fall back. At 4 p. m. Ham
cock sent word that he would hold
on until Meade should come and
decide for himself.
Meade had already sent Gibbon
with his second corps to Gettysburg.
Hancock wrote him that the posi-
ton was good, but liable to be
turned by way of Emmitsburg.
General SlOcum arrived at seven,
and, ranking Hancock, the latter
turned over his command, as he
had been instructed to do, and rode
back to Meade, who said he had
decided to fight at Gettysburg. The
decisive action took place on the Sd,
which was the main point that the
assailed. Gen. Han
cock was wounded, Gen. GibbOn
to the command. The
rebels came up three lines deep, and
rushed to death under a fire OF six
thousand guns. For once it has
been said OF the result, that the ar
my of the Potomac had won a clean,
honest, acknowledged victory. For
his gallant conduct at this fight he
received May 80, 1865, the thanks
Df Congress. He was disabled from
als wound, ana on SICK leave until
March, 1864, being meanwhile en-
ragged in recruiting the second army
sorps, which was placed under his
command. He took the active
of this corps at the OPEN
Ing of the command of 1864. On
he 4th Of May, when all was in
Gen. Meade's army,
its intentions by feint on
see's left, crossed the Rapidan on
his right at Germania and Ely's
Torls. Warren leading at GermaRia,
followed by Sedgwick, and pushing
straight into the wilderness, Ham
cock crossed at Eiy's, and moved
an Ashsncellarsville. On the 5th
and 6th 0f May he took a pr0Bii-
aaut psrs 5n the battles Of the will
fcswcss. The wilderness being q tract
nj tsrsskzea Eabse-land. stretching
froHa the Rapisian nearly
to SpostsT3vsRia courthouse. filed
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