. The life of Winfield Scott Hancock: personal, military, and political . nt from General Hancock, whenthe open road along the railway, a distance of less thanthree miles, was available. It will also be remembered 246 LIFE OF WINFIELD SCOTT HANCOCK. that General Hancock, with 6,000 infantry and 2,000cavalry, most of the latter on picket duty, was now toconfront a force of about 18,000 of the enemys infantryand cavalry.* *Some time after the battle of Reams Station—after the war hadclosed, in fact—General Hancock was informed, by a Confederate officerwho had the best means of knowing the facts,
. The life of Winfield Scott Hancock: personal, military, and political . nt from General Hancock, whenthe open road along the railway, a distance of less thanthree miles, was available. It will also be remembered 246 LIFE OF WINFIELD SCOTT HANCOCK. that General Hancock, with 6,000 infantry and 2,000cavalry, most of the latter on picket duty, was now toconfront a force of about 18,000 of the enemys infantryand cavalry.* *Some time after the battle of Reams Station—after the war hadclosed, in fact—General Hancock was informed, by a Confederate officerwho had the best means of knowing the facts, that their force consistedof about all the cavalry they had in the Army of Northern Virginia,and all they could draw from the Valley, commanded by General WadeHampton; also, three divisions of infantry of four brigades each underLieutenant-General A. P. Hill, who commanded all of their forces en-gaged. These brigades were made up from different divisions of GeneralLees army for the occasion, and consisted of all the troops they could sparefrom the Petersburg CHAPTER XXYII. Reams Station—General Hancocks Preparations for the Fight—Attack onthe Works—Capture of two Union Batteries by the Enemy—Demoral-ization of our Men—Raw Recruits, Substitutes, and Three-months Men—General Hancocks Horse shot under Him—Perilous State ofAffairs—A Battery recaptured—The Enemy driven back by Miles—Complete Demoralization of Gibbons Division—Depression of GeneralHancock—Withdrawal of the Union Army. In answer to tlie dispatch from General Meade, Gen-eral Hancock replied as follows: Headquarters, Second Army Corps, August 25, 1864, p. m. General Meade: I have just received your dis-patch by Captain Rosecrantz. I fear it will be too late tohave Wilcox come for any practical purposes, as he is be-tween four and five miles off now; still, I shall order uphis division. Had the division come down the railroad,it would have been here in time. I desire to know, asso
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