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Historical person
Winfield Scott Hancock was a career United States Army officer who became one of the Union’s most prominent corps commanders during the American Civil War. He fought in the Peninsula, Antietam, Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville campaigns and played a major role in the defence of Cemetery Ridge at Gettysburg, where he was badly wounded.
After the war Hancock held senior military commands during Reconstruction and remained a nationally admired figure. In 1880 the Democratic Party nominated him for president, but he narrowly lost the election to Republican James A. Garfield.
In Jeff Shaara’s Gods and Generals, Jackson, Winfield Scott Hancock and Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain as sectional conflict moves towards secession and war. In Jeff Shaara and Michael Shaara’s The Killer Angels, On the opposing ridges, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, John Buford and Winfield Scott Hancock prepare to hold ground on which the campaign may turn.
Series
The Civil War Trilogy presents the eastern theatre of the American Civil War through three connected novels. Jeff Shaara’s Gods and Generals follows the principal commanders from the approach of secession to Chancellorsville; Michael Shaara’s Pulitzer Prize-winning The Killer Angels reconstructs Gettysburg; and Jeff Shaara’s The Last Full…
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