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[277] Born in Pennsylvania, 1824; died, 1886. Graduated at West Point, 1844; fought gallantly in Mexican War; appointed brigadier general of volunteers in 1861; commanded under McClellan in the Peninsula Campaign; distinguished himself at South Mountain, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg; won the high praise of Grant for his services in the Wilderness, at Spottsylvania, Cold Harbor, and Petersburg; was made a major general in the regular army in 1866; Democratic candidate for President in 1880. Hancock was a gallant commander throughout the war, and Grant spoke of him as “the most conspicuous of those general officers who never held a separate command.”