unknown, fl. 1861-1865; [Albumen portrait of Winfield Scott Hancock]
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC00731.01 Author/Creator: unknown, fl. 1861-1865; Place Written: s.l. Type: Photograph Date: circa 1861-1865 Pagination: 1 albumen : b&w ; 41.5 x 30.0 cm. Order a Copy
One undated half-length portrait of Union General Winfield Scott Hancock in Union uniform.
An 1844 graduate of West Point, Hancock earned the recognition of his superiors early in his career for demonstrating gallantry in the Mexican-American War and the Third Seminole War, among other campaigns. In September 1861, when Hancock arrived in the East to begin service in the Union Army, General George B. McClellan immediately appointed him as a brigadier general of volunteers. By November 1862, he had risen to the rank of Major General. Hancock is most celebrated for his tactical decisions at the Battle of Gettysburg, including putting up an impressively strong front against onrushing Confederates on the first day of battle and repulsing the famed Pickett's Charge on the second.
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