Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-02-18

brief term Of service IN Florida, the Sixth regd-
| ment was ordered first to Kansas and then to
California. The march was made across tho
| continent, and this Is probably the longest con
tfnuous march ever made bya pouy Oh ~ n
In 1861 the war of secession broke out. Al hls
urgent request Hancock was transferred 70 the
East, though not without delay; ana Sep-
TENDER Of the year named ne landed IN N9s
York, Without pausiug to visit his parents he
| FASTENED TO Washington aud reported for duty.
He was at first ordered into the eoinrllssary.
but Gen Mcclellan nm LOT .
brigade, and after q delay OF q rev Gays ne u
| cefyed the commission Of a br1gadler general
and was assigned 70. duty In the division o. Gen
Smith. His command comprised the FoItS-
ninth Pennsylvania, the Forty-thtrd New YORK,
the Fifth Wisconsin. and the Ninth Maine. ms
commission bore date Sept. %, 1851 Ihrough-
ont the earlier OF the war ana the
Pennsylvania campaign Gen. Hancock bore a
prominent part. At the battle of Cold Har-
Dor he captured Secretary Lamar, then 2
colonel under Les In the midst o.
was sent &c the command of the First division
ia place of Gen. Richardson, who fell there. AT
Fredericksburg his division sustained the prunt
OF the attack and Of the terrible mortality OF
that days fight. At Chsncellorsytlle he hau a
horse shot under him. Soon after this battle he
was promoted to command OF the second corps
AT GETTYSBURG
Gen. Hancock was sent by Gen. Meade,
then In command Of the army, to examine the
field, and II was upon his report that that pc
came the decisive battle which thwarted Lees
attempt to get by the Union lines and nank our
armies from the Moth. Hancock placed the
armies as they came up, and when daylight OF
10000 veterans. AT noon, when Hancoeks dl-
vision was resting on captured ground. the en-
emys batteries were Soncentratea upon nm.
Here occurred the grandest charge in the battle.
The rebels sent their finest brigades down
upon Hancock and met with a repulse that lett
1000 dead and wounded and cost 5.ooV prs,
onerS Hancock was wounded at the close OF
this battle, A shell from the enemy had struck
a fence and sent a big rusty nail into his thigh
splintering the bone aud making an ugly flesh
wound. Meade thanked him on the field OF bat
tie and the congress of the United States re-
turned him the thanks of the country. His
wound was found to be severe, and he went 70
his parents home at Norristown to recover. He
paid = hasty visit TO West Point, and retired 70
his own home at Longwood, near 81. Louis. IL
was winter before he Joined his command; and
even then, his wound continued to give him
much trouble. The thigh bone was shattered,
and pieces would work out and reopen the
wound. Ia the winter he was ordered North on
recruiting duty. In Philadelphia he was ten
dered a public reception in Independence hall.
In New York a magnificent reception was
rendered him in the governors room at the city
hall. At Albany the legislature pad him honor;
and in Boston the general court invited him to 4
scat on the floor of the house. At a later date a
magniticently mounted sword was voted TO nm
ut the Mississippi Sanitary fair; and at the Cen
trial Sanitary fair in Philadelphia a costly and
beautiful set of horse equipments was voted
him as the most popular soldier OF tue wal, be-
fore spring he resumed his command. Grant
had come East to assume personal direction OF
the army of the Potomac. which was
divided into three grand divisions the
placed under the mman OF Hancock
In the operations on the Rapidan and in the
battle of the Wilderness Hancock's division did
the hardest fighting. Gen. Grant placed the
firmest confidence in Gen Hancock throughout.
Almost from the beginning of the campaign the
wound he received at Gettysburg gave Hancock
great trouble. He was finally compelled to re-
sign his command for a time. He soon returned,
and in time to be in the battle of Malvern Hill,
where he lost 5000 men. On Nov. 20, 1864, he
was recalled TO Washington, with orders to re-
eruit a veteran corps for service on other halds.
While there the war was ended. Gen. Hancock
was made major general in n Irregular army, ana
first given command over the Central military
department.; then over that OF Louisiana and
Texas. where the Utmost trmness aud prudence
were required. From 1870 to 1877 he com
handed the department of Dakota, having his
headquarters at st. Paul, where he and his ram
lily made a large circle of friends. On the death
of Gen. Meade, in 1872, he was removed to the
department OF the East, with headquarters at
New York, where he remained until his oeath.
At the Pennsylvania state convention OF 1867
he was rendered by his numerous friencs the
Democratic nomination for governor of his
native state-an honor which he then and has
since declined.
AS A P~REsIDESTIAL CANDIDATE.
In the Democratic national convention held
in New York in 1865, Hancock was urged for the
presidential nomination. On the eighteenth
ballot he received 144la votes, the largest num-
Der given any candidate except PendletOn, who,
on the twelfth ballot, had received li5l2 votes.
But on the twenty-secOnG HOratio Seymour was
nominated by the unanimous vote OF the con
v~ention. In 1872 his name was prominently
mentioned before the Liberal Republican, con-
yentiOn at Cincinnati. At the Democratic con-
vention at Cincinnati in 1880 his n&me was put
in nomination by Daniel Doughertr Of Phila-
delphia- The break" for Hancock occurred "a
the second ballot, which, when revised, gave
the general 7O5 of the 73S votes cast. In the
electoral college Gen. Hancock had 155 votes,
carrying the states Of Alabama, Arkansas. Flor
ida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Marylaui,
Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, New Jersey, North
Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Nir-
GINA and West Virginia Gen. Garfield had PA
votes and was elected. Since 1880 Gen. Han
cock has lived quietly at his home on Gov
ernor's island in New York harbor.