biography
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Hancock, Winfield Scott
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| male
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| lived:
| (1824–86)
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| biography:
| US general, born in Montgomery Co, Pennsylvania, USA. He trained at West Point, and served through the Mexican War. In 1861, as brigadier-general on the Union side, he organized the Army of the Potomac, was prominent at South Mountain, Antietam, and Fredericksburg, and took command of the 2nd Corps (1863). Distinguished at Gettysburg (1863), he was conspicuous in the battles of the Wilderness, Spottsylvania, and Cold Harbor in 1864. As the popular Democratic candidate for the presidency in 1880, he was narrowly beaten by James Garfield. |
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