Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1880-07-02

though with uniform pesfoftted with The
enemy's bullsts. In this battle Hancock lost
one-hAH of his command. killed and wound
cd, and all his aids were wounded. s.
AZ hanoeliorsyille, In May, 1863, he COM
mandsd his division and covered the roads
leading towards fredericksburg, where,
amid surrounding disaster, although CON-
stantly attacked, hfs troops maintained their
position to the last, and formed the rear
guard Of the army in moving off the field.
The General had his horse shot under him
in the battle. Early in June, he relieved
General Couch in command OF the Second.
corps, and later in the same moEth was
assigned by Mr.. Lincoln to be it's perns-
neut commander. ~r.-~,-.
+ In one of: his battles General Hancock
placed one Of his brigsdes in . certain po-
sition and said to it's commander: sGen-
ersl, Whatever happens, want yon to
hold this ground" The brigade command
or was never very strong on tho battlefield,
and on this occasion seemed to b particu-
larry weak and anxious, and as the General
turned to ride away to another part Of the
field he followed him 4 short distance and
called out: "General, where are my rsserves?"'
General Hancock turned: and, riding to
where the officer was standing, said, severely:
General, it is none Of your business where
your reinforcements are; that IL my business.
have placed you here to bold this ground;
that is all you are required to do, and I want
It done, sir" The brigade commander re-
turned to his line with sad step and sor.
rowful expression Of oountenance.
r. AT GETTYsBURo. s..~,
I 1t was at Gettysburg Hancock. again
doomed up before the country Is s.hero. BE
was commanding the rear guard Of the army
in it's advance on Gettysburg, and had reach
ed Tarrytown, the place where his grand
father, ono hundred years before, had start
ed to escort one thousand HessiaB prisoners
of Burgoyne's army to Valley Forge, when
General Meade sent him an order to hasten
| to the front and assume command Of all the
troops there. The report had reached Meade
of the fall of General ~Rsynolda, and the
check and repulse Of the advance, and bis
mind at once turned to General Hancock a.
the man above oil, others best qualified to
replace Reynolds and restore order to the
head Of the army. Hancock was not the
ranking General, but in the critical state of
affairs Meade, knowing him to be the best
man, did not hesitate to assign him.
On his way from Tarrytown to the battle
field Gen. Hancock met the ambulance con-
tanning the dead body Of Gen, Reynolds.
When he arrived on the field he found the
| army in confusion and q retreat had already
begun. Planting some infantry and bat
teries on Cemetery Hill he threw hiswhole en-
ergy into the battle and checked the enemy.
Schwerin and SAKE were said to be worth
each reinforcement of 10000 men to an
army; Torstensin was rated: ~ equal to
5000, and the Duke of Wellington said the
arrival of Napoleon on battle field was
q better reinforcement to the French army
than the accession of 10000 fresh troops
What, then, shall We say to the value Of
General Hancock's arrival at that critical
moment on the battlefield of Gettysburg, {
battle that by common consent is nov
admitted to have decided the fate of the
Union and fixed the final result Of tina war!
OF General Hancock's individual action q
Gettysburg it would require volume to tell
His was really the action of the army, ani
Round Top, Culp's Hill and Cemeter!