MAJOR GENERAL WINFIELD SCOTT HANCOCK - MANUSCRIPT LETTER SIGNED 09/11/1880 - HFSID 30328
Price: $650.00
WINFIELD SCOTT HANCOCK
Two months before the Presidential election, he declines an
invitation to the Third American Conclave of Kappa Sigma fraternity.
Manuscript Letter signed: "Winfield Scott Hancock", 1 page,
5½x8½. Governor's Island, New York Harbor, 1880 September 1. To Dr. J. N.
Ogden and others, Committee on Third American Conclave of 'Kappa Sigma',
Abingdon, Virginia, in full: "I regret that my engagements prevent
acceptance of your invitation to be present at the Conclave at Abingdon on the
16th, 17th and 18th of this month. Thanking you for the courtesy, and with best
wishes for the success of the meeting, I am very truly yours". 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. Kappa
Sigma, founded at the University of Virginia in 1869, may be the nation's oldest
college fraternity, with 305 active chapters in North America. Two
horizontal folds. Slightly creased. Otherwise, fine condition.
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