Hancock general winfield scott (1 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. (not signed) on a 1/2 length dramatic portrait of Hancock wearing a dark suit, tie, white shirt and looking to the left of the camera. Photograph is on the original stiff photographer's mount. No imprint on the back. 4 1/4" x 6 5/8"; very good (traces of previous mounting on the bac); circa 1880. General Winfield Scott Hancock (1824-1886), born Montgomery Square, 1824, Pennsylvania; died Governors Island, New York 1886; Graduated West Point, 1844; served in Mexican War; Seminole War and at various Western post including Los Angeles until 1861; commissioned brigadier-general in 1861 and major-general in 1862; at Gettysburg, he won fame as one of the Civil War's great soldiers, selecting the field and diverting Lee from immediate attack; On the second day of Gettysburg he thwarted Lee's nearly successful attack on the Union flank; on July 3 he repulsed the Confederate thrust at the federal center; he was the Democratic presidential candidate in 1880 and was defeated by Garfield.…