. Life and military career of Winfield Scott Hancock; his early life, education and remarkable military career. tocount the cost to himself. He is really a very good speaker, and hehad to deal with a very peculiar people. The emigrants in that partof California, many of them from the seceded and disaffected South,were very uneasy. They sympathized with secession, their heartswere with the South, and if Hancock had not been a real patriot, if hehad not been reared among good people in Pennsylvania, all that wasneeded for him was to encourage them by his coldness, or drive themto violence by his
. Life and military career of Winfield Scott Hancock; his early life, education and remarkable military career. tocount the cost to himself. He is really a very good speaker, and hehad to deal with a very peculiar people. The emigrants in that partof California, many of them from the seceded and disaffected South,were very uneasy. They sympathized with secession, their heartswere with the South, and if Hancock had not been a real patriot, if hehad not been reared among good people in Pennsylvania, all that wasneeded for him was to encourage them by his coldness, or drive themto violence by his sympathy. In this far distant stronghold at thattime, he upheld the flag of his country, the integrity of the Union, andthe rights of man. BETURNS TO WASHINGTON AND ENTERS THE ARMYAGAINST THE CONFEDERATES; MEETS MR. LINCOLN. He first offered his services to Governor Curtin,of Pennsylvania, but before an arrangement couldbe consummated he was recalled to duty in theregular army, and immediately^ assigned to thepost of chief Quartermaster on the staff of GeneralRobert Anderson, the hero of Fort Sumpter, who. WINFIELD SCOTT HANCOCK. 55 had been placed in command of the Union forcesin his native State of Kentucky. While prepar-ing to comply with this order President Lincoln,on the 2od of September^ 1861, commissionedhim as Brigadier General. I remember the day of his appointmen asBrigadier General, on the formal recommendationof General McClellan, and his assignment to thedivision of the Army of the Potomac, commandedby Baldy Smith, lying across the chain bridgenear Lewinsville. His first general commandconsisted of four splendid regiments; one fromNew York, one from Pennsylvania, one from thebackwoods of Maine, and one from Wisconsin. It is, indeed, interesting to know that hisvery first command included troops from widelydifferent States, and this distribution marked hiswhole career; thus making a constituency aswide as the country itself. During the earlyperiod of his service i
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