Portrait of Maj. Gen. Winfield S. Hancock officer of the Federal Army – Historic Photograph Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Portrait of Maj. Gen. Winfield S. Hancock officer of the Federal Army comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Portrait of Maj. Gen. Winfield S. Hancock officer of the Federal Army
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This is a pre-war portrait of a man who would become one of the Union's best-known generals. Dated 1860, it was made on a glass negative using the wet collodion process, and it shows Winfield Scott Hancock as a career Army officer before the Civil War made him famous. The "Maj. Gen." in the title reflects the rank he later held, not the one he had when the picture was taken. Hancock went on to command the II Corps at Gettysburg in 1863, where he was wounded, and he later ran unsuccessfully for president as a Democrat in 1880.
| Created / published | 1860 |
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| Medium | 1 negative : glass wet collodion. |
| Notes | Civil War photographs 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge Washington D.C. : Library of Congress 1977. No. 0925 Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. Forms part of Selected Civil War photographs 1861-1865 (Library of Congress) · Gibson James F. b. 1828 photographer. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865. Hancock Winfield Scott 1824-1886. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 934 × 1,358 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-51910 |
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