MAJOR GENERAL WINFIELD SCOTT HANCOCK - AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED 01/19/1870 - HFSID 30340
Price: $700.00
WINFIELD SCOTT HANCOCK
The Civil War commander writes to the family doctor requesting
billing information for a Mrs. Russell and his own wife Mrs. Hancock, while
living in St. Paul, Minnesota
Autograph letter signed: "Winfield Scott Hancock" in black
ink. 2 pages, docketed on verso, 5½x8½ folded, 11x8½. January 19, 1870. St.
Paul, Minnesota. Addressed to a Dr. Slanhoff. In full: "My Dear Dr.
Mrs. Russell requests that you will Send her Bill Information...Mrs. Hancock also
informs me that [illegible] which also please sent to the send at the same
time". Winfield Scott Hancock (1824-1886), a highly successful Union
Corps commander during the Civil War and a hero of the Battle of Gettysburg
(1863), was the Democratic Party's candidate for President in 1880,
losing very narrowly to James A. Garfield by a margin of fewer than
40,000 votes out of 9 million cast. (The Electoral Vote margin was wider,
but far from a landslide: 214-155.) Hancock was Commanding General of the U.S.
Army's Department of the East, headquartered on Governor's Island, from 1877
until his death. Toned. Normal mailing folds. Stained throughout. Otherwise,
fine condition.
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