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[Maj. Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock, 1824-1886, half length portrait, seated, facing left] – Historic Photograph Print

[Maj. Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock, 1824-1886, half length portrait, seated, facing left], [no date recorded on caption card] — historic photograph
[Maj. Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock, 1824-1886, half length portrait, seated, facing left], [no date recorded on caption card]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of [Maj. Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock, 1824-1886, half length portrait, seated, facing left]. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Maj. Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock, 1824-1886, half length portrait, seated, facing left]

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Winfield Scott Hancock appears in this half-length portrait, seated and turned toward the left, a pose that keeps the focus on his face. Hancock was a Union major general whose II Corps held the center of the line at Gettysburg in July 1863, and he was wounded there on the third day of the battle. He later ran for president as the Democratic nominee in 1880 and lost to James A. Garfield. The caption card gives no date for the picture, so it is best read as a portrait of the officer in general rather than a record of a specific sitting.

Created / published[no date recorded on caption card]
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesCivil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: PI; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,215 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-130102

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