Winfield Scott Hancock A Soldier's Life

Name: Winfield Scott Hancock A Soldier's Life
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ISBN: 9780253210586

ISBN-10: 0253210585

ISBN-13: 9780253210586

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Authors: David M. Jordan

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ÒEssential for Civil War collections.Ó ÑChoiceÒHighly readable . . . an important addition to 19th century American history as well as Civil War literature.Ó ÑAmericaÕs Civil WarÒThe definitive work on the life of Winfield Scott Hancock.Ó ÑBlue and Gray MagazineÒDetailed, well-written and thoroughly documented.Ó ÑThe Journal of American HistoryThis compelling biography presents the colorful life of ÒHancock the Superb,Ó one of the most important commanders in the American Civil War. A major figure at battles such as Gettysburg and the Wilderness, Hancock also figured in the Plains Indians wars, was a controversial Reconstructionist commander of New Orleans, and just missed gaining the…

Book details

List price: $33.00
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 11/22/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

David M. Jordan is author of Roscoe Conking of New York: Voice in the Senate; Winfield Scott Hancock: A Soldier's Life (IUP, 1988); "Happiness Is Not My Companion": The Life of General G. K. Warren (IUP, 2001); and Occasional Glory: A History of the Philadelphia Phillies.



List of Illustrations


Preface



Hancock the Superb



The Lawyer+s Son



To Mexico



Between Two Wars



In California



The Brigadier



Up the Pennsylvania with




A Division at Antietam



-A Chicken Could Not Live on That Field+



The Failure of Fighting Joe



North to Pennsylvania



Gettysburg



The Invalid



The Wilderness



The Spotsylvania Campaign



The Frustration of General Grant



Across the James



The Deep Bottom Expeditions



The Final Battles



The End of the War



The Execution of




Indian Problems



Reconstruction Commander



A Boom for President



Return to the Plains



East and an Election



The great Strike



Hancock and the Army



Off and Running for 1880



Drifting



The Cincinnati convention



The Campaign Begins



A Close Election



The Morning After



Down a Flight of Stairs



-Pure Gold+


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Index