Hancock Biography

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Joshua l.Chamberlain
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Hancock Biography

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Is there any Hancock biographies out there that talk in detail about Hancock's battles during the civil war and so on.
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Joshua,

I'm sure there are some, try in Google

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Try David Jordan's excellent biography, Winfield Scott Hancock: A Soldier's Life. I also found this on Google: Great Commanders: General Hancock. The latter is an entirely digitized book -- about 300 pages -- originally published in 1894, and has three chapters on Gettysburg alone. It is written in the style of the late 19th century, so you may find it a bit tedious.

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"Hancock the Superb"

http://books.google.com/books?id=1RpCAA ... q=&f=false
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Amish John wrote:
I'd be careful about this one. It looks to have been written in time for Hancock's 1880 presidential bid (and conveniently contains a biography of Hancock's running mate, William Hayden English). We all know how "accurate" campaign biographies can be, right?

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You might also find Hancock's report from the Battle of Gettysburg interesting.

Steve
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Great read Mr Spkr.

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MrSpkr wrote:
You might also find Hancock's report from the Battle of Gettysburg interesting.

Steve
thanks very much for that link :laugh:
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