The examiner., 1886-02-13
GENERAL HANCOCK,
HIS CONDITION HAD BEEN PRE-
 CARIOUs.
sketch of His Brilliant Career-Con-
 ments of the Press-General
Sorrow Felt.

sorrow Felt
 NEW YORK, Feb General Han- cock had been ailing for some time, and had been unable actively to attend to his military duties on the Island. He suffered from com plication of diseases, but still fought against his carbuncle while he was at Washington compelled him to remain in, his house. From this attack he did Tot rally, and his condition had been considered precariOus for day or two past.
 x He does es1G 1esss-a i---- large esz ssSsts.~ He ossIssti so9fae zReSasy oI ' t.iis.o in and about St. Louis, but little e1se His charities are said by those who knew him most intimately to have been con stant and much greater than his income warranted.
 Messages of coincidence to Mrs. Han- cock have been received from Resident Cleveland, Generals sherman and Sheri- dan, and other distinguished citizens.
 The preparations for the funeral are of the simplest kind. Preliminary services will be held in Trinity church on Saturday morning at 10 o'clock. The body will be escorted from Governor Island to Trinity church the garrison of Fort Colu mbus, with such other regular troops as may be ayaila-
 
 tary music and no sermon. Brevet Major-General Jackson, commanding the post of Fort Columbus, will be in con- mand. The revenue cutter Chester A. Arthur will be detailed to convey the body from Governors Island to this city, and thence to Jersey City, where special train will be in readiness to convey it to Norristown, Pennsylvania There the burial will take place.
 SKETCH OF HIS LIFE.
 Winfield Scott Hancock was born in Montgomery county, Penn, February IA, 1894. He was graduated from West Point in 1S44. Until 1S46 he served mainly on frontier duty, and afterward in the war with Mexico. At the first out break of the war he was summoned to Washington and on September 23, 1861, was made brigadier general of volunteers.
 In the peninsular campaign he was conspicuous at the battles of Williams burg and Frazer's farm, and preserved his prominence in the subsequent cam paigns in Maryland, at Antietam and South Mountain. At Fredericksburg and Charlottesville he commanded a division, having been made major general
 His heroic conduct at Gettysburg is well known history. For this he received the thanks of congress. While still suffering from wound received in this fight, until March, 1864. he recruited the Second army corps, which he subsequently com handed in the battles of the Wilderness Spottsylvania Court House, North Ann, the second battle of Cold Harbor, and about Petersburg. urg.-s,<--s...,- s=zssszzssss.szzs~
 After the close of the Var Gen. Han cockwas placed successively in different commands, being placed in the Eastern de- partment, in November 1872, on the death of Gen. Meade, which he retained until the time of his death.
 In the Democratic national convention in 1868 he was candidate for the presi- dential nomination, receiving on the first ballot 33 1-2 votes out of ST. and on the eighteenth IA 1-2. In 1880 he received the Democratic nomination for the presi- dency, but i'll the election was defeated by James A. Garfield.
 He had no faith in an Indian bureau, and his exposure of the fraud and prac- tices of Indian agents was one of the causes of the celebrated Quaker peace commission which was authorized by President Grant to inquire into their grievances. General Hancock never had any faith in their reformatory measures
 Comments of the New York Press.
 A faithful servant to his country. an upright and noble-hearted citizen, perfect in every personal relation of life, wise and splendid as a soldier, good and spotless as a man, we bid him farewell in sorrow, and with honor and deep regret the whole nation will follow him to the grave-ISun.
 No officer during the rebellion was more idoliZed by his men; and no one ever showed by higher daring or more con- spicuous gallantry his right to their ad- miration. He was not O. of the great leaders, but he will live ever in our history one of the chivalrie figures of our Civil War. It was not to General Han cocks advantage that he was nominated for the Presidency.-[T Tribune.
 He would have liked to have been Pres1- dent and who will say that it would not have been better for the country if he had been elected in 1880? AS it is, although he never reached that high office, he passed through 8 campaign without a single attack upon his integrity or honor, and military record or his personal charac- ter-[ World.
 We do not forget to note that Gen. Hancock attained distinction in civil life, becoming the Democratic candidate for the Presidency in 1880 against Gen. Gar field-a contest in which he bore himself with modesty and dignity-but if we dwell on his career as a soldier it is because on this his enduring fame and his claims to the grateful memory of his countrymen are founded.-[Tlmes- .-.--
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