HANCOCK, Winfield Scott

Affiliation:  Union

Born: February 14 1824, Montgomery Square PA

Died: February 9 1886, Governor's Is. NY

Pre-War Profession: Graduated West Point 1844, frontier duty, Mexican war, Kansas war, Utah expedition, quartermaster service

War Service: September 1861 appointed Brig. Gen. of Volunteers, commanded 1stBde/2nd Divn/IV Corps in Peninsula, Seven Days, commanded 1st Bde/2nd Divn/VI Corps at Antietam, November 1862 promoted Maj. Gen. of Volunteers, commanded 1st Divn/II Corps at Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, commanded II Corps at Gettysburg (w), Wilderness, Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, August 1864 Brig. Gen. in Regular Army, commanded Dept of West Virginia

Post War: Army service, commanded Dept. of the East, US presidential candidate in 1880