The Exeter Times, 1880-7-8, Page 28
THE CANDIDATE OF THE DEMO-
CRACY,
Tu.OINTEREYrTSG+ RECORD MOE ir
FIELD MITT 11ANO0OK.
From the Philadelphia Iteoord.
'Winfield Soott llen000k is 56 years
old, haviug been born iu Montgomery
county, Peeneylvania, February 14,
1824. His mother's father wits a Rev.
Olutionary soldier end was captured at
sea aud aouflued ia the Dartmoor Pri
son, Eegland. His great-grandfather
on his mother's eide was also a soldier
matter Washington, aud reudered good
service, ilyiug at the close or the Rev.
elution from exposure and hardships
endured in the field, Hancock's father
served iu the war of 1812, and after.
wards heearne a lawyer of distinction
in Montgomery county, Pennsylvetia.
At the age of 10 Haneock was sent to
Wet t Puiut, and had for classmates 13,
S. Grant, George B McClellan, J. F.
Reynolds, J. L. Rene, Buruside,
Fraultlin and W. F. Smith,ile
graduated in 1844, June 80, and in
1845-0 served with his regiment in the
Indiau Territory as a tiecoad Lieuten-
ant of the Sixth Iufa"try. In 1847 he
was in Mexico and conepicuous for
gallantary at the Natural Bridge, San
Antonio, Oontreras, Cheruhusco,
Mellnoddel Rey and the capture of the
City of Mexico. Ile was brevetted for
gallantry at the battles of tiontretas
and Olierubneao. la 1849 and 1850 he
served with his regiment as quarter-
mariter aud adjutaut, aud in the fall of
1350 was married at St. Lewis to Miss
Llama Ressell, the daughter of a pro•
minent merchant of that city. He
took part in several Indian catnpaigu,
in the "West, and iu 1857 was engaged
in the Southern Florida war. He serv-
ed iu the expedition aginuet Utah, and
in 1859 weut to California.
At the incipiency of the rebellion be
took high grounds in favor of the Un-
ion, and did much in 1861 to check the
seeeesion spirit in California. Ile ap-
plied to Governor Curtin, of his native
State, for a commission iu the volun-
teers, but the Governor was elow iu re-
plying to his application, and he ob
taiued a !we of absence and came
East. .Elis earneetness impressed Gen•
eral Scott, who ordered him to report
to General McOlellan, and President
.Liaculu, on the 23rd of September,
1861, commissioned Hancock a bri-
gadier geueral of voluoteeise Ile was
assigued to a brigade in the division of
Geueral Baldy aud reported for
duty at Chain Bridge, Virgiuia, in the
Artily of the Potomac.
jO othere, In June, 1802, wheu hie
troops fought four battlee on the Pen-
iusula in as many days, an officer who
bad his. mon iu a tight place and said:
"General, my men are all being killed;
tray I nut withdraw them a little out
of the fire?" "No," replied 13.ancoolt,
"I hope we may be able to advatioe
soon." "Then we shall all be killed,"
deepoudingly replied the officer, "Very
well," said. Hancock, "returu to your
troop, and if you fall you will have
the setiefatition of Ituowing pa have
died for yoer country." For his servio-
es in the Penioselie campaign General
IlcOlellau recointneuded Hancock for
promotion to the rank of major.general
of volunteers arid the brevets of major,
lieuteuaut colonel and colonel in the
regular army.
—His first battle in the rebellion was
at Warwick Court House, near York-
town. At Williamsburg Hancock bore
part. a conspicuous pt. Tee rebels having
repulsed Hooker and expored Hancock's
left flank he determiued to retire, and
ordered the batteries) back to the slope,
where his ',lignite line stood. The
rebel commander, seeing the move-
meut, at once advanced hie troops, and
they 0341,0 down on Haneock's right
in line two superb liof battle, cheeriug
tremendously. Hancock sat 31I his
horse bebiud the centre of his line,
waitittg with imperturbable coolness
the favorable moment. Calling on the
men to stand fast and keep their pieces I the eye of a consummate geueral, huug
loaded, Hancock waited untifthe rebels outo them with the advance UD til Meade
brought up the whole army and deliv-
ered hie battle. Hancock was grand
aud magnificent and seemed the very
incarnation of war. Oa the second
was at Cemetery Heights duriug the
frightful cannonade, wheu the rebels
cutteentrated the lire of tile hundred
and fifty guile ou our three. The air
was full of missiles; streams of shot
and ehell screamed and his,ed every
where; men aud horees were' torn limb
trom limb; cassimis exploded one after
another id rapid succeseion, blowing
T.ELE. TIM:ES
line unoovered and rode down the front
of hie men to the left. The solallers
held their breath, expecting every me -
meat to see him fall from his horse
pierced by a dozen bullets, but (still he
rode op, while the shot roared and
crashed around him, every rumneut
tearing great gaps io the ranks by his
side, just as Haucock rettehod the
lett of his line the rebel batteries ceas-
ed to Oman and their infantry, 18,000
strong, were seen emerging from the
woods aud advanoing up the hill.
kIanoock turned his horse, rode slowly
up hie line from, left to right, holding
his hat in his hand, bowing and smil-
ing to the troops as they lay flat on the
grouud. Hardly had he reached the
right of the line when the men, inspired
by the courage or their General, re•
oeived orders to attack the advancing
rebels. Eighty guns which Hancock
• aux J.61 0
teetegeeeteseessaaesseeteeestseeteet seraseetta . .ateresitereareeteresearteereesersee
of trial by jury, the habeas wrote, the THE ET;
liberty of the press, the freeclom
•speech, the natural rights of persous
and the righte of property must be pre -
nerved. Free imititutions; while they
are essential to prosperity and liappi-
uese of the people; always furnish the
strongest inducements to peace and 14
order. Crimes and offences committed IV wg
in this distriot must be referred to the
consideration aud judgment of the reg-
ular oivil tribnuals, and. those tribunals
will be supported by their lawful jam-
diettion. While the General thus hall-
oates his purposes to respect the liber-
ties of the people, he wishes all to un -
stand that armed insurrection or forci-
ble resistance to the law will be instant-
ly suppressed by arms.
By command of.
Maj.•Elen. W. S. Heetooex,
Order N:two
In September, 1862, Hancock coin -
=tided his brigade in the battle of
South mouutaiu, and afterwards at
Autietam. In Nuvember, 1862, he re-
ceived nis cointuission as Major Gen-
eral, and ou the 18th ef Deoember was
engaged in the desperate and bloody
assault Mayre's Heights. His be-
havior on thie ocoasiou was iu keeping
with the hit,h reputation lie had aehiev-
ea. this battle Halm* lost one-
half of his contented, killed aud wonud-
ed, and all of his aide were wouuded.
At Ceaucellorsville, in May, 1868f
he covered the made leading toward
Fredericksburg, where, although 0J11 -
stautly attlicked, his troops maintained
their poeitiou to the last, aud formed
the rear grand in the arwy iu moving
off tue field.. The Geueral hod hie
bursa shot uuder hint iu the battle.
Laxly iu June he relieved General
Couch iu conimaud of the Second
Corps, aud later in the same munch
was aeeigued by Mr. Lincoln to be its
permaueut commaudJr.
At Gettysburg, Hancock again loom-
ed up before the couutry as a hero.
de was commandiug the rear guard of
the armyed
in its vance ou aettyaburg,
and had reaohed Tarrytown, the plan
where his graudfather, one huudred
years before, had started to escort 1,000
Hess and prisoners of Burgoyne's army
to Valley Forge, when General Meade
sent him. au order to hasteu to the front
and assume command of all the :troops
there. The report had reached Meade
of the fall of General Reynolds and the
check and repulse of the advance, and
his mind at once turned to General
Hancock as the man above all others
beat qualified to replace Reynolds aud
restore order to the head of the army.
Hancock was not the ranking General,
but in the critical etate of affairs Meade
kuowiug the mem, did not hesitate to
assign him.
On his way from Tarrytown to the
battle -field, tieneral Hancock met the
ambulance containiug the dead body
of General Reynolds. Vilieu he arriv-
ed on the field he found the army in
confueion aud.a retreat had already be-
gun. Plauting sume infautry aud bat-
teries ou Cemetery Hill he threw his
whole enemy iuto the battle aud check-
ed the euemy. Ratted Top Culp's Hill
and Cemetery Heights were Lie crea-
nous. He sent word to General Meade
that there was the place to fight, aud
seizing the favorable positious, with
were within 100 yards, then, flashing
forward on his horse, with head bared
and swinging his beadle shouted: "For -
'ward! ferward! forward!" The men saw
the towering form of their general lead-
ing them, a Oil springing up, with a
shout that made the 'hills ling, they
precipitated themselvee upon the ene-
my. The great times of rebels felter-
' ed, halted for a mitnent, waveriel and
thee fall beak 2110 .1.y. Every inch of
gatuud was Sillbb anly cuatested; still
ili neecit fantod them t If 411 ?tor
th
did they again advaucte uunIthe Union t:ti
the guers to pieced, while iofautry
reinforeetneuts tunic up and reedered Lugged the grouud closely and (ought
the victory sure. It was also night be- every blight Anther that the light earth -
fore Hancock repulsed the eeetny, and works alf.trded. was literally a
»t, pursuit could be ordered in the storm of allot and shell, like the fall of
darkness. The action of Hancock had' rain -drops or thebeat of hailstonee. It
rendered Williamat erg untenable, and wee then, when the firmest hearts had
that night the euerny abandoned it. begun to quail, the army witnessed one,
Hancock's name was heralded from of the grandest sights ever beheld by
g
'ain to CethforDia, and UcClellau tel. eny army on earth. Suddenly a band
egraphed the leresidente "Hancock tate
soperb to•slay." Hancook never knew
fear himself, Reid could not tolerate it
aning L‘, ,
had nouoentrated opened their brazen others, which created almost as great a
mouths and streams of bullets flew ' sensation and revolution as that given
from the muzzles of our rifles to the above, One of these was dateri'Deoenn
breasto of the Confederates. It was an
awful day, and Longstreet's corps melt-
ed away like wax under thet terrible
fire. Of the 18,000 who came to the
attack 5,000 fell or were captured on
the hillside. Hancock was everywhere,
riding the storm of battle as if he bore
a charmed life. At last, just in the
moment of victory, a ball pierced his
thigh, and for a time it was thought
the wound was mortal. "Tell General
Meade," said Hancock, addressing his
aide, Coluuel Mitchell, "that the troops
under my commaucl have repulsed the
enemy and gained a greet victory. The
enemy are now now flying in all direo•
Hens in my front." When the aids de.
ber 5, 1867,aud embraced the folloeiug
paragraph :—
The Omurnanding General has been
officially informed that the administra-
tion of justice, and especially of crimi-
nal justioe, in the Courts is clogged, if
not entirely frustrated, by 'the eufore-
ment of parrtgrsaph No. 2 of the military
order numbered special orders125,our
rent eerier', from those headquarters he
sued au the 25th of Aegust, A. P. 1867
relative to the qualifications of persous
to be placed on the 'jury lists of the
State of Louitiansa The commanding
Geueral in the discharge of the trust
reposed in him, will mantaiu the jost
power of the judiciary, and is nuwilling
livered this message to Geueral Heade, to permit the civil authorities and law
and added that his General was dang-
gernusly wounded, Meade said: "Say
toGsneral Hancock that I am sorry he
is wounded, and that 1 theta: hint for
myself and for the country for the
services he has rendered to -day." Gen- by revolied.
conerneuting By camtnaud of
Major General Hancock.
The other, und•n: date of Deoember
18, contained the following provieions:
IX. Military interference with elec-
tions, "unless it be necessary to keep
the pence at the polls," is prohibited by
law, and no soldiers will be allowed to
appear ea any polling place, unless as
citizens of the State they are registered
as voers, and then only for the pur-
pose of voting ; but the commanders
of posts will be prepared to act prompt-
ly if the oivil authorities fail to preserve
the peace.
In 1878 he was relieved at his own
regnest, and it, 1870, '70, '71, and '72
commatided the Departmout of Dakota.
Since thou be has commanded the Mili.
tary Division of the Atlaetio, composed
of tue Del of the Lakes, the
Department of the Best and Depart.
mept of Washington, with headquar-
ters at Governor's Island, New York
city.
It, personal appearance General
Haticaskle t dl, well•fortned and very
handsome. His height is about six feet
two inches, and his weight is near 250
pouuds. He has blue eyes, benignly t
expression of countenance, and his
mautter is dignified aud courtly,though
he is of a sympathetic nature, and
mingles in his composition the bravery
of the ideal Amerciau soldier with a
tenderness and interest in the misfor-
tunes of °there worthy of the kindly
heart of a WOIDIAD. His interest in sub -
subordinates has :always c attributed
greatly to his success because of the
love eugeudered for their commander
and the pride thus aroused in his
achievinents.
tareueral Hancock had two ebildren,
Remelt Hancock ana Ada Elizabeth
Haucock. The latter died in New
York, of typhoid fever, when 18 years!
of age. She was a yonng lady of great
promise, linseell Hancock, the Gen -
eel's son, is living and is a planter in
... For the cure of bad legs,had bretiete, old wounds
/FONEY FOUND. — BETWEEN :ores anclUleerr, Me nu remedy. If
0'1 George Mitee's store rind the Sable iitr,IgnAYVII?klimj.1138itT1 31.311T6'(?'"
to be eirlb4Traillied by military tutefer-
ence. It is ordered thatsaid paragraph,
which relates to the qualifications of
petrous ito be placed on the be end
jury lists of State of Louisiana, is here-
eral Meade afterwards; in
on the battle of Gettereburg, said to
General R. C. Drum: "No command-
ing general ever bad a better lieuten-
ant than Hancock. He was always
faithful and reliable."
At the close of the war, as a reward
for his services, General Hancock was
appointed a brigadier and afterward a
major general in the regular army,and
assigned to command of ;the Middle
Department. In 1866 he took com-
mand of the Department of Missonri
and conducted two campaigns against
hostile _Indians, taking the field in per-
son at the head of 1,500 =a of all
arms. In 1867 he was sent by the
President to New Orleans to command
the States of Texas and Louisiana. It
was in this field of Libor that he dis-
tinguisect himself by setting the ex•
ample of an officer of the army with
extraordinary powers strenuously iu•
sisting upon the entire subordivatiou
of military to civil aathority iu time of
peace. Following is his famous order
on taking command of the depart-
ment:---
HEADVARTERh MILITARY 'Da •
TENT. GENERAL ORDERS Nu. 40. • NEW
ORLEANS, La” November 29, 1807.-1.
In accordance with Geueral Ovders No.
81. Hoedquarters of the Army. Ad-
jutaut General's office, 'Washington, D.
0., August 27, 1867, Major General W.
S. Haucock hereby assumes command
of the Ilth Military district, and of
the department composed of the bbates
of Louisiana and Texas.
2. The Geierea commanding is pleas-
ed to learn that peaoe and quiet reign
in this department. It will be his pur-
pose to preserve tins condition of
things. As rnertne to this great end
he regards the maintenance of the civil
authorities ie lite faithful execution of
the laws as the most efficient tinder ex-
istiDg circurnetauces. In war it is in_
dispensable to repeal force by force
and overthrow and destroy oppoeitiou
to lawful authority. But when ineur-
reotionary ferce has been overthrew):
and peace established and civil author.
hits aro ready and willing to perform
their duties,:the military power should
cease to lead ancl the civil adrainistra•
tion resume its natural and rightful
dominion. • Solemnly impressed with
these views the General announces that
began to play "The Stu Spangled the great principles of Ainericau liberty
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