 Hancock stands the most conspicuous figure of all the general officers who did not exercise a separate command. He commanded a corps longer than any other one, and his name was never mentioned as having committed in battle a blunder for which he was responsible.  General Hancock - 第6页作者：Francis Amasa Walker - 1894 - 332 页全本阅读 - 图书信息
 | Rossiter Johnson, John Howard Brown - 1904 - 540 页
...Atlantic, where he remained till his death. General Grant's estimate of him as a soldier is as follows: " Hancock stands the most conspicuous figure of all the general officers who did not exercise a general command. He commanded a corps larger than any other one, and his name was never mentioned as... | |
 | Henry Wilson Storey - 1907 - 650 页
...had been former friends and Hancock desired to give him comfort without humiliation. Gen. Grant said: "Hancock stands the most conspicuous figure of all...command. He commanded a corps longer than any other one man, and his name was never mentioned as having committed in battle a blunder. No matter how hard the... | |
 | Oscar Henry Cooper, Harry Fishburne Estill (F.), William Leonard Lemmon - 1908 - 648 页
...endeared him to the South. In 1880 he was the Democratic candidate for President. Grant said of him : " Hancock stands the most conspicuous figure of all...general officers who did not exercise a separate command His name was never mentioned as having committed in battle a blunder for which he was responsible."... | |
 | John Day Smith - 1909 - 428 页
...ties of my military life. General Grant, in his Memoirs, pays General Hancock the following tribute: "Hancock stands the most conspicuous figure of all...man of very conspicuous personal appearance. Tall, wellformed, and, at the time of whicn I now write, young and fresh-looking, he presented an appearance... | |
 | John Formby - 1910 - 554 页
...Grant gave the command to him, and he always exercised it with conspicuous success. Grant says that " his name was never mentioned as having committed in battle a blunder for which he was responsible," while Sheridan speaks with admiration of his rare military judgment, and correct appreciation of a... | |
 | Francis Trevelyan Miller, Robert Sampson Lanier - 1911 - 368 页
...unsuccessful candidate for the presidency against Garfield. Of Hancock, General Grant once said: " Hancock stands the most conspicuous figure of all...battle a blunder for which he was responsible." He died on Governor's Island, New York, February 9, 1886. MAJOR-GENERAL ANDREW ATKINSON HUMPHREYS (USMA... | |
 | Francis Trevelyan Miller, Robert Sampson Lanier - 1911 - 362 页
...against Garlield, Of Hancock, General Grant once said : " Hancock stands the most conspicuous ligure of all the general officers who did not exercise a...battle a blunder for which he was responsible." He died on Governor's Island, New York, February 9, 1886. MAJOR-GENERAL ANDREW ATKINSON HI-MPHKEYS (USMA... | |
 | Francis Trevelyan Miller, Robert Sampson Lanier - 1911 - 368 页
...unsuccessful candidate for the presidency against Gurfield. Of Hancock, General Grant once said: " Hancock stands the most conspicuous figure of all...any other one, and his name was never mentioned as baving committed in battle a blunder for which he was responsible." He died on Governor's Island, New... | |
 | Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines - 1912 - 854 页
...was a brilliant leader, known as "Hancock the Superb," — "the most conspicuous figure," says Grant, "of all the general officers who did not exercise a separate command." Consult the 'Life' by Walker (1894). Hancock, Mich., village in Houghton County ; on Lake Portage,... | |
 | Charles Ramsdell Lingley - 1920 - 750 页
...the presidency General Winfield S. Hancock, a modest, brave Union soldier, of whom Grant once said, "his name was never mentioned as having committed...battle a blunder for which he was responsible." He was not an experienced politician, but was popular even in the South. On the whole the Democratic convention... | |
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