The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1886-02-11
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WtnAeld Scott Hancock was born near Mont.
ecmsry Square. Pa, Feb. Ii. 1924. He was
eduosted at the village academy In Norristown
and 1t West Point. Congressman Joseph For
nance appointed him in 1910. U. 8. Grant was
ana ..nsa e u.y ws hs s11h rss
ment infantry, with thu rank Of second lieuten-
ant. He served in the southwest, on ard near
can war, when his regiment was ordered to join
the army Of Gen. Winfield Scott. Hancock was
engaged in no actual fighting till near the close
battles Of Oontreras, Cherubusco. Moline del Rey
and Chapultepec. On the conclusion OF peace
DO WAS stationed near. Prairie du. Chen
Samuel Russell, merchant OF st. Louis.
son and daughter blessed the union. After a
brief term Of aervice in Florida, the Sixth regi-
ment was ordered first to Kansas and then to
California The march was made across the
continent, and this Is probably the longest con-
tinuous march ever made by body Of troops
In 1851 the war Of secession broke out. At his
urgent request Hancock was transferred to the
East, though not without delay; and in Sep
tember Of the year named ne Landed IN New
hastened to Washington and reported for duty.
He was ct first ordered into the commissary.
but Gen. Mcclellan recommended him for a
brigade, and after delay OF q few days he re-
ceived the commission Of brigadier general
and was assigned to duty in the division Of Gen.
ninth Pennsylvania, the Forty third New York
the Fifth Wisconsin. and the Ninth Maine. His
commission bore date Sept %, 1861. Through
out the earlier movements Of the war and the
Pennsylvania campaign Gen. Hancock bore a
prominent part. At the battle OF Cold Har-
Dor he captured Secretary Lamar. then a
the fight at Antietam Gen. Hancock
was sent to the command Of the First division
In place of Gen. Richardson. who fell there. At
Fredericksburg his division sustained the brunt
of the attack and Of the terrible mortality of
that days fight. At Charlottesville he had 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 it was upon his report that that be-
came the decisive battle which thwarted Lees
attempt to get by the Union lines and flank our
armies from the North Hancock placed the
armies as they came up. and when daylight of
the I'd OF July broke Lee was confronted by
~, 900 veterans. At noon, when Hancocks di-
vision was resting on captured ground, the en-
cmys batteries were concentrated upon him.
Here occurred the grandest charge in the battle.
The rebels sent their finest brigades down
upon Hancock and met with a repuise that left
1000 dead and wounded and cost 5000 pris-
Oners. Hancock was wounded at the close OF
this battle A shell from the enemy had struck
fence and sent big rusty nali into his thigh.
wound. Meade thanked him on the field of bat
tie and the congress of the United States re-
turned him tine M o. .ne n h Went Hs
his parents home at Norristown to recover. He
paid hasty visit TO West Point, and retired to
his own home at LongwOod, near St. Louis. 1t
was winter before he joined his command: and
even then, his wound continued to rive 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 public reception in Independence hail.
In New York q magnificent reception was
rendered him in the governors room at the city
hall. At Albany the legislature paid him honor;
and in Boston the general court invited him to a
seat on the floor OF the house At later date a
magnificently- mounted sword was voted to him
at the Mississippi Sanitary fair; and at the Cen
trail Sanitary fair in Philadelphia costly and
him as the most popular soldier Of the war. Be-
fore spring he resumed his command. Grant
had come East to assume personal direction OF
divided into three grand divisions, the
right of which. the Second corps.
placed under the command OF Hancock;
In the operations on the Rapidan and in the
battle of the Wilderness Hancock 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 time. He soon returned,
and in time to be in the battle of Malvern Hill,
where he lost 5000 men. On Nov. &c, 1854, he
was recalled to Washington, with orders to re-
cruit veteran corps for service on other fields
was made major general in the regular army. and
first given command over the Central military
department.; then over that of Louisiana and
Texas, where the utmost firmness and prudence
were required. From 1870 to 1872 he com
manded the department of Dakota, having his
headquarters at st. Paul, where he and his fam
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 death
At the Pennsylvania state convention of 1869
he was rendered by his numerous friends the
Democratic nomination for governor OF his
native state-an honor which he then and has
since declined.
AS A PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE.
In the Democratic national convention held
in New York in 1868, Hancock was urged for the
presidential nomination. On the eighteenth
ballot he received 144lo votes, the largest num-
Der given any candidate except Pendleton, who,
ON the twelfth ballot, had received 145l2 votes.
But on the tWenty-second Horatio Seymour was
nominated by the unanimous vote of the con-
vention. In 1872 his name was prominently
mentioned before the Liberal Republican con-
vention at Cincinnati. At the Democratic con-
vention at Cincinnati in 1880 his name was put
in nomination by Daniel Dougherty of Phila-
delphia- The break" for Hancock occurred ON
the second ballot, which, when revised gave
the general 7O5 of the 738 votes cast. In the
electoral college Gen. Hancock had 1855 votes,
carrying the states of Alabama, Arkansas, Flor
ida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland,
Mississippi. Missouri, Nevada. New Jersey. North
Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee. Texas. Vir-
votes and was elected. Since 1880 Gen. Han
cock has lived quietly at his home on Gov
ernors island in New York harbor.