MAJOR GENERAL WINFIELD SCOTT HANCOCK - MANUSCRIPT LETTER SIGNED 09/19/1883 - HFSID 30314
Price: $700.00
WINFIELD SCOTT HANCOCK
Confined to his home by an illness, he invited a US Navy Commodore
John Upshur to visit him there.
Manuscript Letter signed: "Winfield Scott Hancock", 2 pages
(integral leaf), 5x8. Governor's Island, USA, 1883 September 19. To
Commodore John H. Upshur, US Navy, Brooklyn, New York, in full: "I
have been confined to my house with laryngitis [?] contracted at Sandy
Hook since last Thursday. I suppose I shall be out in a few days. If you will
come down today about 5 o'clock I shall be pleased to see you at my house.
Pardon the dictation of this letter. I am not very well." 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.
Commodore John H. Upshur (1823-1907), later an admiral, had served the
Union on blockade duty and assaults on coastal fortifications during the Civil
War. One vertical fold. Ink stain from signature at top of text on page one
(barely visible). Slightly creased. Otherwise, fine condition.
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