Winfield Scott Hancock (February 14, 1824 – February 9, 1886) was a United States Army officer and the Democratic nominee for President of the United States...
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between Republican James A. Garfield, the winner, and Democrat Winfield Scott Hancock. After winning control of both houses of the U.S. Congress in 1878...
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November 2, 1880. Republican nominee James A. Garfield defeated Winfield Scott Hancock of the Democratic Party. The voter turnout rate was one of the highest...
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ISBN 978-0-7222-8992-1. Retrieved 2009-06-26. Jordan, David M. (1988). Winfield Scott Hancock: A Soldier's Life. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University...
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Representative James Garfield from Ohio defeated Democratic General Winfield Hancock. Though Garfield won a clear majority of electoral votes, he won the...
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Winfield may refer to: Winfield, Alberta Winfield, British Columbia Winfield, Alabama Winfield, Arkansas Winfield, Georgia Winfield, Illinois Winfield...
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1880 Democratic National Convention (section Hancock)
to 24, 1880, at the Music Hall in Cincinnati, Ohio, and nominated Winfield S. Hancock of Pennsylvania for president and William H. English of Indiana for...
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General Winfield Scott Hancock (1913) is a sculpture by Cyrus E. Dallin on the east side of the Pennsylvania State Memorial in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania...
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General Winfield Scott Hancock is an equestrian statue of Winfield Scott Hancock, by Henry Jackson Ellicott together with architect Paul J. Pelz. It is...
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San Diego, which was occupied in 1860. He was a close friend of Winfield Scott Hancock, serving with him as a quartermaster in Los Angeles, before the...
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command of the II Corps after Chancellorsville, the corps going to Winfield Hancock. The Pennsylvania Reserves Division, having spent several months in...
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from August 1863 until March 1864, replacing the wounded Maj. Gen. Winfield S. Hancock, and distinguishing himself at the Battle of Bristoe Station. On...
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narrowly voted for the Democratic nominee, United States Army officer Winfield Hancock, over the Republican nominee, Ohio representative James A. Garfield...
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Sedgwick's division, Richardson's division was taken over by Brig. Gen Winfield Hancock, brought over from the VI Corps as the ranking brigadier general in...
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Butler Joshua Chamberlain George Custer David Farragut John Gibbon Winfield Hancock Samuel P. Heintzelman Joseph Hooker Oliver Otis Howard David Hunter...
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personally stopped the great Cheyenne warrior Roman Nose from killing Gen. Winfield Hancock. Tall Bull was killed in the Battle of Summit Springs on 11 July 1869...
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and the Republican candidate defeated his fellow Civil War general Winfield Hancock by a narrow margin in the November election. Hanna did much fundraising...
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had won, while Blaine won two states (California and Nevada) that Winfield Hancock had won. But most of those states had relatively small numbers of electoral...
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works around Hatcher's Run. The entire II Corps, under Maj. Gen. Winfield S. Hancock, was pulled out of the trenches and moved to operate against the...
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including officers Union General Winfield Scott Hancock, Confederate General Winfield Scott Featherston, and Admiral Winfield Scott Schley. The U.S. Army Civil...
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election. Electoral votes of the party that won in 1884: Democratic Party * Hancock received only 5 of California's 6 electoral votes in 1880. Electoral votes...
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his attack. By this time Winfield Hancock had arrived at Smith's headquarters. The normally decisive and pugnacious Hancock, who outranked Smith, was...
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the war. In November 1864, he assumed command of the II Corps after Winfield Hancock was forced to resign for health reasons, which he led for the rest...
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interior. David Farragut 1903 issue. Winfield Hancock was featured in the Civil War commemorative sheet of 20. Hancock was the hero general of Gettysburg...
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south of Gettysburg. Rushed into action as reinforcements by Maj. Gen. Winfield Hancock, Colonel Brooke launched a limited counterattack against oncoming Confederate...
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hosted more than 60 men. It was renamed Fort Hancock in 1886 after the death of General Winfield Scott Hancock, a hero of the Battle of Gettysburg. The fort...
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flood, the Army decided to relocate the fort. On orders from Maj. Gen. Winfield Hancock, Maj. Alfred Gibbs chose a new location 15 miles (24.1 km) to the northwest...
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the fighting in the Wilderness, and both II Corps commander Maj. Gen Winfield Hancock and 1st Division commander Maj. Gen Francis Barlow held an extremely...
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Presidential nominee 1880 (lost) Vice presidential nominee Winfield Hancock of PA (1824–1886) Prior public experience Commander of the Fifth Military District...
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Erwin's brigade, which participated in the storming of Bloody Lane. Winfield Hancock, who commanded the 1st Brigade of William F. Smith's division, was...
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