Winfield Scott Hancock

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1824-02-14

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1886-02-09

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"Winfield Scott Hancock" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00013850, (accessed April 29, 2024).

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Commanding general of United States Army. Montgomery, Pennsylvania, native. Son of Benjamin Franklin Hancock and Elizabeth Hoxworth Hancock. Married to Almira Russell Hancock in St. Louis, Missouri, on February 1, 1850. Father of Russell Hancock and Ada Hancock. Graduated from West Point Military Academy on July 1, 1844. Served under Major General Winfield Scott in the U.S.-Mexican War. Served in the United States Army as regimental quartermaster, adjutant, and chief quartermaster in St. Louis and California from 1848 to 1859. Brigadier general of volunteers (U.S.A.), organizing the Army of the Potomac from September 23, 1861. Assigned as commander of the 1st division of the II Army Corps (U.S.A.) on September 17, 1862. Promoted to brigadier general on August 12, 1864. Appointed as commanding general of the Veterans Reserve Corps (U.S.A.) in November 1864.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Missouri, St. Louis, 2nd Ward, p. 217B.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, California, Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, p. 365.
Missouri Marriage Records, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, Missouri, St. Louis Marriages, 1847-1852, p. 238.
James Grant Wilson & John Fiske, eds., Appletons' Cyclopedia of American Biography, 1600-1889, Vol. 3 (New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1888), 72-74.
Ezra J. Warner, Generals in Blue: Lives of the Union Commanders (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1964), 202-204.
Find A Grave, "Winfield Scott Hancock (1824-1886)," Memorial #4839, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/4839 (accessed December 10, 2020).

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