Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-04-17
woMAN.s WAR.
Two Genera-s, Friends In the Field. Fa,,
Out at Home.

Two Generas, Friends In the Field. FAN
Out at Home.
Philadelphia News.
General Alfred Pleasanton 10 ona ..
the most noted figures upon onr st-oo,s
That dashing and brilliant cavalry leader
who drove Price out Of Missouri. who
checked the confederate advance at Get
tysburg, and who did hundred or mora
other things which ought to have made
the public grateful, is now private
citizen. He Is slightly below Medium
height, and even now walks with the
peculiar swing of cavalryman. Gen.
eral Pleasanton will never be able to dis
guise the fact that he is born soldier
He has the look Of military man from
head to feet. His hair is now frosted
nearly pure white, and his mustacbe
and imperial are of a greyish tinge. He
still wears the black SLOUGH hat of the
style in vogue when he commanded the
cavalry of the army of the Potomac. and
his favorite Is a cape overcoat. The
General is one of the most enter
tanning takers in Washington. Speak
ing. the other evening, to your cores
pondent, he said: 1.-Two of the greatest
generals of the war were model bus-
bands. Grant and Hancock, although
able to command and hold in absolute
obedience hundreds of thousands of men.
took ''back seats when they were at
home. Perhaps you do not know how
the unfriendly feeling rose between
Grant and Hancock. 1t is a most inter
esting story, and extends back before
the war, when Grant and Hancock were
both young men. Both were stationed
at st. Louis at the time refer to and
neither had been married a great while.
Mrs. Hancock came from southern
family. Her feelings were all that way,
while Mrs. Grant was intensely northern.
There never was any good feeling be-
tween Mrs. Grant and Mrs. Hancock.
Mrs. Hancock snubbed Mrs. Grant. n
fact which Mrs. Grant never forgaye.
After the war Grant came to Wash
ington with his family to establish his
headquarters here. They went to Will
lard's hotel, but the bills were too high
for the generals purse; SO he told his
wife that he would like TO
go to housekeeping, and asked her
at the same time to select proper resi-
dence. Mrs. Grant went out, and finally
decided that General Hancock and Mrs.
Hanock were occupying the house which
she would like. She went home and told
her husband, and he made out the neces-
sary order. You see Grant outranked
Hancock and was entitled to the house ac
cording to precedent and established u.s.
age. Mrs. Hancock, however, was not to
be outdone by Mrs. Grant, so she per
sauded her husband to write sharp note
to the General. Then came Mrs. Grants
turn. She made up her mind to have that
house or die, altogether there were
thousand other houses just as good in
the city, SO she influenced her husband
to reply in kind to Hancock. There was
quite a correspondence, but of course
Grant came out ahead and got the house.
A few days afterward Grant and Han
cock met in the street. Grant extended
his hand as though nothing had happen
ed, for he was not man to bear i'll
will against another for some petty,
foolish thing; but Hancock de-
turned his back on him. When
the assignment of divisions came later
Grant sent Hancock way up in Mime
sofa, where he kept him six years.
Meade was given the division of the At
lantic, with authority to establish his
headquarters in Philadelphia or New
York. As Meade was a Pennsylvanian
he chose Philadelphia. After Meade's
death Grant assigned Hancock to the
command of the Division of the Atlantic,
with authority to establish his head
quarters either at Philadelphia or New
York, in precisely the same language as
had been given Meade. As Hancock was
also Pennsylvania the PHILADELPHIA
people supposed that his headquarters
would remain where they were. Mrs.
Hancock, however, remembered that the
Philadelphians had given Meade house
in that city, and that they had neglected
to similarly remember her husband. she
determined that the headquarters should
be tran sterred to New York, and trans
ferred they were, and remain 80 to this
day. Women have more to do ia nation
al affairs than you have any idea off,