Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1886-02-12

Gone to JOin the Final BivOuack
I'm she Great Encampment.

From the Salt Lake Tribune.
Another hero Ia gone. Another grave
which will through the years be q shrine
to those who revere patriotism and valor,
is being prepared. Winfield Scott
| Hancock was an ideal soldier. Nature
| youchsafed him the double gift OF q mar
| tial soul and o physical frame which in
early manhood made him seem to v
Al eye like Mars, to threaten and command;
A station like the herald Mercury;
A combination and q form,
Where every god did seem to set his seal,
To give tho world assurance and @ msn,
| Aud a thorough soldier. In the days OF
| chivalry he would have been as marked as
was Saladin or Richard the Lion-H Hearted.
He was q supplemented soldier, too. The
business OF war was an exclusive one to
him. His thoughts were on the enemy In
front aud how to crush him, and no dream
of what might be behind disturbed him.
His record IL the wal was that OF one
who struck the enemy when he found him
and never in vain. When, in the crisis OF
the Wilderness battle. o pale MESSENGER
brought the news to Grant that the
Second Corps had been rolled back
and was in retreat. Grant merely
shook his head and said: II don't
believe it; that is Hancock's corps"
And be was right. The stormy soul OF the
quiet commander, unconsciously perhaps
TO himself, had comprehended how much
force would be necessary to overcome the
resistance of that Hancock corps, and he
did not believe the enemy could muster
that force. The men who live upon the
seashore, where some rocky promontory
jufs into the sea, may calculate whether
the great waves that the tempests may
drive In will sweep away q wharf or pier or
b~reak-water, but they never give any
thought to the promontory itself, for the
power that fashioned the sea and gave to
the hurricane its dominion fashioned like
wise the rocky wall to resist the forces OF
the two combined. On the shore OF a
great battle Hancock was the rocky wall
against which all the waves OF battle broke
in vain. His career as o soldier culmin-
ated at Gettysburg. He reached the field
Just before shutdown on the first day OF the
greatest OF American battles. Reynolds.
in getting his command into position. had
been killed about IL A. M. and Howard
had been fighting q losing ~fght-losing
two.fifths Of bis commsnd-all the after
noon against the swarming hosts OF both
Hill and Ewell and had been driven
back through the town OF Gettys-
burg, back over Culp's Hill, where
Hancock found him. Howard had been
shaken In the unequal fight and had
lost heavily, but he advised making
o stand there and Hancock glancing
along Cemetery Ridge said: "Yes, this
Ia the place to fight" aud sent hurried
messages to Meade to hurry up the scat
tered army TO that point. So prompt was
the response that Sedgwick-the glorifed
soldier, who the next year at Spotsylvania
Courthouse, ut the extreme front was 30
quickly translated that the smile on his
face was transfixed-who with his COM
mand was on that morning So miles from
the field, the next afternoon o up his
position In the immortal line. The par
t~iculars Of that fight are familiar to ell.
There are many here who can give them
with o charm and directness which Q
newspaper can not, for they counted the
pulses Of that upheaval when Fate seemed
to have its finger on the wrist OF Liberty.
to note how much exhaustion 1t could
bear. 1t IL enough TO say that where Han
cock was the wars loudest thunders were
awakened; when the cloud finally was
lifted and rolled away. In front OF his SER
ried lines-thst terrible left center-the
dead lay thickest. He was wounded there
and has never been quite his old self since,
though he moved with Grant on to Rich
mond, and was q host in himself-the Ney
OF the army from the Wilderness to Gold
Harbor. In 1880 he was nominated for
President, but his fame had been already
made secure. We think it was q mercy to
him that he was not elected, for his in
perious soul would nave cbafed at the
duties Of the Office for which he had re-
ceived no training. as the Gagged eagle beats
against his bars. His last public appear.
ance was at the funeral Of his commander.
Mcclellan. A few weeks previous he was
master and Marshal at the funeral OF
Grant, and those who saw him then
counted on his being spared yet for many
a year. But the end has come. He has
followed tho path that his old companions
Grant Mcclellan, Burnside. Hooker,
Meade, Sedgwick and the ~others-trod be-
fore him. He has gone to join the final
bivouac In the great en%campment, and bis
life Is rounded with the sleep that comes
at last to the brave "who sink to rest,
with all their country's honors best"
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