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Double-Signed Presentation CDV Winfield Scott Hancock!
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Click to View Image Album Rare double-signed CDV of General Winfield Scott Hancock with F. Gutekuntz Backmark (Philadelphia).
The image is signed by Hancock on the front and reverse. The front reads, after his signature: \"Care of M. M. D...\" (this other name on the front is not very legible).
On the reverse Hancock wrote, \"For Surgeon Josiah Simpson / with compliments of ...\" followed by his signature. Simpson was a US Army Medical Staff surgeon. His entry from the HDS database is below.
The CDV has some minor spotting but no clips or other damage. It is in excellent condition.
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Winfield Scott Hancock (February 14, 1824 – February 9, 1886) was a career U.S. 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 American Civil War. Known to his Army colleagues as \"Hancock the Superb\",[1] he was noted in particular for his personal leadership at the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863. One military historian wrote, \"No other Union general at Gettysburg dominated men by the sheer force of their presence more completely than Hancock.\"[2] As another wrote, \"his tactical skill had won him the quick admiration of adversaries who had come to know him as the \'Thunderbolt of the Army of the Potomac\'.\"[3] His military service continued after the Civil War, as Hancock participated in the military Reconstruction of the South and the Army\'s presence at the Western frontier.
Hancock\'s reputation as a war hero at Gettysburg, combined with his status as a Unionist and supporter of states\' rights, made him a potential presidential candidate. His noted integrity was a counterpoint to the corruption of the era, for as President Rutherford B. Hayes said, \"[i]f, when we make up our estimate of a public man, conspicuous both as a soldier and in civil life, we are to think first and chiefly of his manhood, his integrity, his purity, his singleness of purpose, and his unselfish devotion to duty, we can truthfully say of Hancock that he was through and through pure gold.\"[4] When the Democrats nominated him for President in 1880,[5] he ran a strong campaign, but was narrowly defeated by Republican James A. Garfield.
Josiah Simpson
Residence was not listed; Enlisted on 8/12/1855 as a Surgeon.
On 8/12/1855 he was commissioned into US Army Medical Staff (date and method of discharge not given) (Prior service inUS Army since 07/11/1837; subsequent service until his death)
Promotions:* Lt Colonel 3/13/1865 by Brevet * Colonel 3/13/1865 by Brevet
Other Information:born in New Jerseydied 3/3/1874
Sources used by Historical Data Systems, Inc.: - Index to Compiled Military Service Records - Heitman: Register of United States Army 1789-1903(c) Historical Data Systems, Inc. @ www.civilwardata.com
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