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See also:HANCOCK, See also:WINFIELD See also:SCOTT (1824-1886) , See also:American See also:general, was See also:born on the 14th of See also:February 1824, in See also:Montgomery See also:county, Pa. He graduated in 1844 at the See also:United States Military See also:Academy, where his career was creditable but not distinguished. On the 1st of See also:July 1844 he was breveted, and on the 18th of See also:June 1846 commissioned second See also:lieutenant. He took See also:part in the later movements under Winfield Scott against the See also:city of See also:Mexico, and was breveted first lieutenant for " gallant and meritorious conduct." After the Mexican See also:war he served in the «pest, in See also:Florida and elsewhere; was married in 185o to See also:Miss Almira See also:- RUSSELL (FAMILY)
- RUSSELL, ISRAEL COOK (1852- )
- RUSSELL, JOHN (1745-1806)
- RUSSELL, JOHN (d. 1494)
- RUSSELL, JOHN RUSSELL, 1ST EARL (1792-1878)
- RUSSELL, JOHN SCOTT (1808–1882)
- RUSSELL, LORD WILLIAM (1639–1683)
- RUSSELL, SIR WILLIAM HOWARD
- RUSSELL, THOMAS (1762-1788)
- RUSSELL, WILLIAM CLARK (1844– )
Russell of St See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis; became first lieutenant in 1853, and assistant-quartermaster with the See also:rank of See also:captain in 1855. The outbreak of the See also:Civil War found him in See also:California. At his own See also:request he was ordered See also:east, and on the 23rd of See also:September 1861 was made brigadier-general of See also:volunteers and assigned to command a See also:brigade in the See also:Army of the See also:Potomac. He took part in the See also:Peninsula See also:campaign, and the handling of his troops in the engagement at See also:Williamsburg on the 5th of May 1862, was so brilliant that McClellan reported " Hancock was superb," an epithet always afterwards applied to him. At the See also:battle of See also:Antietam he was placed in command of the first See also:division of the II. See also:corps, and in See also:November he was made See also:major-general of volunteers, and about the same See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time was promoted major in the See also:regular army. In the disastrous battle of Fredericks-See also:burg (q.v.), Hancock's division was on the right among the troops that were ordered to See also:storm Marye's Heights. Out of the 5006 men in his division 2013 See also:fell. At See also:Chancellorsville his division received both on the 2nd and the 3rd of May the brunt of the attack of See also:- LEE
- LEE (or LEGIT) ROWLAND (d. 1543)
- LEE, ANN (1736–1784)
- LEE, ARTHUR (1740–1792)
- LEE, FITZHUGH (1835–1905)
- LEE, GEORGE ALEXANDER (1802-1851)
- LEE, HENRY (1756-1818)
- LEE, JAMES PRINCE (1804-1869)
- LEE, NATHANIEL (c. 1653-16g2)
- LEE, RICHARD HENRY (1732-1794)
- LEE, ROBERT EDWARD (1807–1870)
- LEE, SIDNEY (1859– )
- LEE, SOPHIA (1950-1824)
- LEE, STEPHEN DILL (1833-1908)
Lee's See also:main army. Soon after the battle he was appointed See also:commander of the II. corps.
The battle of See also:Gettysburg (q.v.) began on the 1st of July with the defeat of the See also:left wing of the Army of the Potomac and the See also:death of General See also:Reynolds. About the See also:middle of the afternoon Hancock arrived on the See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field with orders from See also:Meade to assume command and to decide whether to continue the fight there or to fall back. He decided to stay, rallied the retreating troops, and held See also:Cemetery See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
Hill and See also:Ridge until the arrival of the main See also:body of the Federal army. During the second See also:day's battle he commanded the-left centre of the See also:Union army, and after General See also:Sickles had been wounded, the whole of the left wing. In the third day's battle he commanded the left centre, upon which fell the full brunt of Pickett's See also:charge, one of the most famous incidents of the war. Hancock's superb presence and See also:power over men never shone more clearly than when, as the 150 guns of the Confederate army opened the attack he calmly rode along the. front of his See also:line to show his soldiers that he shared the dangers of the cannonade with them. His corps lost in the battle 4350 out of less than 1o,000 fighting men. But it had captured twenty-seven Confederate battle flags and as many prisoners as it had men when the fighting ceased. Just as the Confederate troops reached the Union line Hancock was struck in the See also:groin by a See also:bullet, but continued in command until the repulse of the attack, and as he was at last See also:borne off the field earnestly recommended Meade to make a general attack on the beaten Confederates. The See also:wound proved a severe one, so that some six months passed before he resumed command.
In the battles of the See also:year 1864 Hancock's part was as important and striking as in those of 1863. At the See also:Wilderness he commanded, during the second day's fighting, See also:half of the Union army; at See also:Spottsylvania he had charge of the fierce and successful attack on the " salient "; at See also:Cold Harbor his corps formed theleft wing in the unsuccessful See also:assault on the Confederate lines. In See also:August he was promoted to brigadier-general in the regular army. In November, his old wound troubling him, he obtained a See also:short leave of See also:absence, expecting to return to his corps in the near future. He was, however, detailed to raise a new corps, and later was placed in charge of the " Middle Division." It was expected that he would move towards See also:Lynchburg, as part of a combined See also:movement against Lee's communications. But before he could take the field See also:Richmond had fallen and Lee had surrendered. It thus happened that Hancock, who for three years had been one of the most conspicuous figures in the Army of the Potomac did not take part in its final See also:triumph.
After the assassination of See also:Lincoln, Hancock was placed in charge of See also:Washington, and it was under his command that See also:Booth's accomplices were tried and executed. In July 1866 he was appointed major-general in the regular army. A little later he was placed in command of the See also:department of the See also:Missouri, and the year following assumed command of the fifth military division, comprising See also:Louisiana and See also:Texas. ' His policy, however, of discountenancing military trials and conciliating the conquered did not meet with approval at Washington, and he was at his own request transferred. Hancock had all his See also:life been a Democrat. His splendid war See also:record and his See also:personal popularity caused his name to be considered as a See also:candidate for the See also:Presidency as See also:early as 1868, and in 188o he was nominated for that See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office by the Democrats; but he was defeated by his Republican opponent, General See also:Garfield, though by the small popular See also:plurality of seven thousand votes. He died at See also:Governor's See also:Island, near New See also:York, on the 9th of February 1886. Hancock was in many respects the ideal soldier of the See also:Northern armies. He was See also:quick, energetic and resourceful, reckless of his own safety, a strict disciplinarian, a painstaking and hard-working officer. It was on the field of battle, and when the fighting was fiercest, that his best qualities came to the front. He was a born commander of men, and it is doubtful if any other officer in the Northern army could get more fighting and more marching out of his men. See also:- GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
- GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
- GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
- GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
- GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
- GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
- GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
- GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
- GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
- GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
- GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
- GRANT, U
- GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)
Grant said of him, " Han-See also:cock stands the most conspicuous figure of all the general See also:officers who did not exercise a See also:separate command. He commanded
a corps longer than any other, and his name was never mentioned - as having committed in battle a blunder for which he was responsible."
A See also:biography of him has been written by General See also:Francis A. See also:- WALKER, FRANCIS AMASA (1840-1897)
- WALKER, FREDERICK (184o--1875)
- WALKER, GEORGE (c. 1618-169o)
- WALKER, HENRY OLIVER (1843— )
- WALKER, HORATIO (1858– )
- WALKER, JOHN (1732—1807)
- WALKER, OBADIAH (1616-1699)
- WALKER, ROBERT (d. c. 1658)
- WALKER, ROBERT JAMES (1801-1869)
- WALKER, SEARS COOK (1805—1853)
- WALKER, THOMAS (1784—1836)
- WALKER, WILLIAM (1824-1860)
Walker (New York, 1894). See also See also:History of the Second Corps, by the same author (1886). (F. H.
End of Article: HANCOCK, WINFIELD SCOTT (1824-1886)
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