#winfield scott hancock

[allysah]

shoutout to dan sickles for not being in gettysburg (1993) maybe it’s for the better

[grants-blue-eyed-stare]

Armistead and Hancock

[tommy-288]

Apparently Winfield Hancock has an identical twin brother??? I had no clue! I couldn’t find any pictures of him tho. And his name is Hilary (no relation)

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[chamberlainswifey]

Reblog me and tell me who your favorite generals are and why

Mine are the Chamberlains, Ames, Hancock, Sherman, Grant, and Buford :)

[quicksiluers]

Hancock’s Ride by Dale Gallon - Cemetery Ridge, Gettysburg, PA, July 3, 1863 – Major General Winfield S. Hancock rides the Federal line preceding Pickett’s Charge. When an officer urged the General to take shelter, he responded, “There are times when a Corps Commander’s life does not count.” (x)

[civilwarvacations]

The Four Titans: Exceptional Corps Commanders of the American Civil War

The American Civil War saw the rise of military commanders whose tactics, leadership, and operational art skills influenced the conflict’s outcome. In this complex tapestry of heroism and tragedy, four corps commanders stand out: two from the Union Army and two from the Confederate Army. Union Army Winfield Scott Hancock Standout Quality: Inspirational Leadership   Outstanding Battle:…

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octonewton 👀 wywutmsequel 👀👀

octonewton is a Pacific Rim fanfic in which Newton is a merperson, but with an octopus lower half instead of a fish. He saves Hermann after a fall on the beach and romance ensues. I unfortunately never got farther than the little flashback scene at the beginning in which Hermann and Newt briefly meet as children. Here's a snippet:

He bends down to examine the pearly underside of a mussel shell. When he straightens, there is a boy in the water, waist-deep.

The boy smiles at him and waves. He doesn’t look any older than Hermann. “Hi!” He calls out. “What’s your name?”

“Hermann,” the boy on shore answers automatically. He doesn’t think to ask the same question.

The boy smiles wider. “That’s a funny name. I like it. Are you collecting shells?”

Hermann looks at his little bucket and hugs it to himself protectively. He has to share nearly everything with his brother, and the shells are his alone. But the boy is far away, and it isn’t nice to lie, so Hermann finally nods. Yes, he is.

“What’s your favorite kind?” the boy in the water asks.

Hermann loosens his grip on the bucket slightly. “Sea snail.”

“They don’t taste as good as oysters,” the boy in the water says.

 Hermann wrinkles his nose. “I don’t want to eat them, I just like the shells. They follow the golden ratio. That makes them prettier than oysters.”

Even from the shore, Hermann can see the boy roll his eyes. “Well, oysters are cooler because they look like rocks but they’re alive.”

“What’s so cool about a rock?” Hermann demands, but the boy just sticks out his tongue.

Then he dives under the water and disappears.

Hermann frowns to himself and listlessly sorts through his shells. He didn’t mean to pick a fight with the other boy, and now he wishes that he hadn’t. 

wywutmsequel is the sequel to When You Wish Upon the Moon, a sequel that I have been plotting for ages and writing draft after draft and throwing each one away. I don't know what my problem is, probably I have put too much expectations on myself. Anyway, here's a snippet that is just as likely to be thrown out as every other iteration I have written, so don't get too attached:

They had been wandering the Gettysburg Battlefield, a site purportedly haunted by its many fallen soldiers. Pitch loved visiting “spooky” places and watching the humans make fools of themselves trying to get proof of ghosts with their phones and cameras. Sometimes Pitch would give a paranormal enthusiast a jolt of fear, and Sandy never protested because they were adults, not children, and it was admittedly a little funny to watch someone jump in the air and scream.

But on this particular night, Pitch had been more pensive than mischievous, his gaze wandering over the monuments, shadows trailing behind him. He paused to look over a statue of a man on horseback, his wide brow creasing in thought. “Sandy… when you were a star pilot… did you ever meet him? The General?”

Sandy blinked and read the monument’s plaque in confusion. <i>Winfield Scott Hancock?</i>

“No,” Pitch hissed, before recomposing himself. “No, I meant me. Him.” He looked away, as if embarrassed. “Kozmotis Pitchiner.”

Oh! <i>Only once</i>, Sandy replied quickly, turning his attention to Pitch. <i>I was a cadet out on patrol when I spotted a large fearling. I tried to take it down but it was too big for my ship and likely would have destroyed me if it weren’t for General Pitchiner. He swooped in and saved the day.</i> Sandy gave a little smile at the memory before adding sheepishly, <i>He chewed me out afterwards for being reckless and taking on more than I could handle.</i>

Pitch snorted. “Sounds familiar,” he murmured, half to himself, but his smile didn’t quite meet his eyes. 

<i>He also told me that I had some of the best moves he’d ever seen for such a young star pilot. I was so starstruck that I could barely thank him afterwards. We helped one another out a few times over the years in battle, but that was the only time he ever spoke to me.”

“I see…” Pitch turned away, as if disappointed, and added acerbically, “Must have been devastating to lose such a heroic figure…”

Sandy floated up so that Pitch could see his sand writing. <i>It was. But as much as I admired him, I didn’t know him. He wasn’t my friend.</i>

Something warm and vulnerable flickered in those tarnished silver eyes before something past Sandy’s shoulder caught the dark spirit’s attention. “I can’t believe it. That idiot over there brought a <i>ouija board</i>.” Pitch’s mouth curved up into a nasty grin. “A moment, Sandy, while I give him a little lesson in spirit etiquette.”

And that was that. Pitch never brought up the General again.

[caesarsaladinn]

philosophically I’m opposed to naming people directly after other, famous people (think for yourself, don’t just ape previous generations) but aesthetically I think it’s awesome. Winfield Scott Hancock, Benjamin Franklin Pierce, Simon Bolivar Buckner, and so forth.

[almackey]

Stay and Fight It Out

This book by Kristopher White and Chris Mackowski comes to us from the Emerging Civil War Series published by Savas-Beatie. It covers the fighting on Culp’s Hill on July 2, 1863, the second day of the battle of Gettysburg. I have to say I have a few minor problems with the first parts of the book. The authors say about Major General Winfield Scott Hancock, on page xx, “The superlative most often…

[wikiuntamed]

On this day in Wikipedia: Wednesday, 14th February

Welcome, ようこそ (yōkoso), добродошли (dobrodošli), hoş geldiniz 🤗 What does @Wikipedia say about 14th February through the years 🏛️📜🗓️?

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14th February 1824 🗓️ : Birth - Winfield Scott Hancock Winfield Scott Hancock, American general and politician (d. 1886) "Winfield Scott Hancock (February 14, 1824 – February 9, 1886) was a United States Army officer and the Democratic nominee for President of the United States in 1880. He served with distinction in the Army for four decades, including service in the Mexican–American War and as a Union general in the..."

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[grants-blue-eyed-stare]

Everyone was in love with him (including Chernow /j)

[rhokel]

James Abram Garfield was born in 1831. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the 20th #POTUS for only 200 days, from Mar until Sep 1881. He was the 4th President to die in office and the 2nd assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.

A strong opponent of slavery, Garfield was one of the founders of the Republican Party and in 1859 was elected to the Ohio legislature.

Garfield left the army after he was elected to the 38th Congress & became a prominent member of the Radical Republicans. This group favoured the abolition of slavery & believed that freed slaves should have complete equality with white citizens.

In 1879, he was elected to the Senate, filling the seat vacated by John Sherman. In 1880, he was nominated to run as the Republican candidate for #POTUS, defeating front runner President US Grant's bid for a 3rd term, & in the general election defeated the Democratic challenger Winfield Scott Hancock. He became the only person ever to be elected to the Presidency directly from the House of Rep., & was for a short period a sitting Representative, Senator-elect, & President-elect.

In his inaugural speech Garfield returned to the issue that had first brought him into politics: "The elevation of the Negro race from slavery to the full rights of citizenship is the most important political change we have known since the adoption of the Constitution of 1787. It has liberated the master as well as the slave from a relation which wronged and enfeebled both."

On July 2, 1881, he was shot in the back by Charles J. Guiteau, a deranged political office seeker, at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station in Washington, DC. About two weeks later, he suffered a massive heart attack and a ruptured splenic artery aneurysm, following blood poisoning and bronchial pneumonia and died just two months shy of his 50th birthday on 19th September, 1881.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/381/james-a-garfield

https://spartacus-educational.com/USAgarfield.htm

[mixedbagofships]

The Democrats initially had an edge with Winfield Scott Hancock and William English because they had the support of the southern states.

[chamberlainswifey]

I am very sorry to do this to you all 🙏

[quicksiluers]

Minnesota Forever by Dale Gallon - Gettysburg, Sundown July 2, 1863 – Along the upper reaches of Plum Run west of Cemetery Ridge, Major General Winfield Scott Hancock orders the 1st Minnesota to advance in a desperate attempt to hold the Union line (x)