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
| Heritage Auction Galleries (Dallas, Tex.) - 2007 - 302 页
...command of the Second Corps. lt was this sort of fortitude and loyalty that led President Grant to say: "Hancock stands the most conspicuous figure of all...having committed in battle a blunder for which he was responsible'This lot commemorates this man through six CDVs, all of which feature the man in his Union... | |
| Albert Shaw - 1895 - 810 页
...Grant attested Hancock's pre-eminence as a corps commander when he said of him that his name was uever mentioned as having committed in battle a blunder for which he was responsible. While General WalKer devotes most of his attention to the military career of his hero, he does not... | |
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