Commanded the 2nd Corps, Army of the Potomac at Gettysburg where he was seriously wounded

United States Presidential candidate in 1880

Known as "Hancock the Superb"


His Childhood, Youth, Education, Military Career, Social and Domestic Life. By Frederick E. Goodrich. Published by B.B. Russell, Boston, 1886. Illustrated front piece of Hancock with a printed signature below his portrait. Tissue paper opposite the front piece. Illustrated. Brown cloth hardcover book, with black and ornate gold leaf trim on the spine, and at the top of the front of the book which includes a bust vignette of General Hancock. There is a large, beautiful printed Hancock signature in black that is embossed into the front cover. The title, "Life Of General Hancock" is in gold. 352 pages. The book measures 5 1/4 x 7 3/4, and it is very tightly bound with colorful end pages. It shows some light wear, and there are a couple of small stains visible on the end pages. Very fine and desirable book about "Hancock the Superb," who was seriously wounded on July 3, 1863, during Pickett's Charge, at the battle of Gettysburg.