[Hancock, Almira.] Reminiscences of Hancock. New York: C. L. Webster & Company, 1887.

CHAPTER I. The Marriage Contretemps of the evening Removal to Jefferson Barracks Their dilapidated condition Lieutenant Hancock's love of trees and plants Buell and the burning of the steamboat Kate Kearney 1-10 CHAPTER II. Life at the Barracks Thrilling and amusing anecdotes Volunteer mode of conducting a court- martial Jack, the Bean-Killer Cholera at the Barracks Self-protection on the Mississippi General Twiggs and Major Banks 11-20 CHAPTER III. Concentration of troops at General Harney and General Clark Correspondence between General Sumner and Lieutenant Hancock Lieutenant Hancock made a Captain 21-25 CHAPTER IV. Ordered to Troubles with the Seminole Indians Services in the Everglades An exciting row down the river A Sentry shoots his friend General Harney 's negro Threatening to hang the pappooses Russell Hancock's intercession Birth of Ada Hancock 2 6~34 CHAPTER V. Ordered back to Fort Leavenworth Trouble in Benden becomes noted as a pugilist Starting for Utah Captain Hancock's journal Ordered to Benecia, Cal. Twenty-one hundred miles on mule-back Anecdote of a mule Incidents of the long journey Vigilantes and Anti-Vigilantes Why General Hancock preferred the Infantry 35~44 CHAPTER VI. A two months' leave of absence Life in Washington Mrs. Joe Johnston Major Robert E. Lee The start for Arrival at Aspinwall An overloaded vessel The fight on the boat Ordered to Los Angeles An exciting eighteen miles stage-drive 45~53 CHAPTER VII. Description of Los Angeles Amusements Coyotes interfere with lunch Adventure with a drunken Indian Church services A Spanish demonstration Indian etiquette A Fourth of July celebration 54-64 CHAPTER VIII. News of the fall of Sumter Mr. Hancock applies to be ordered East General Albert Sidney Johnson Feeling in the West The parting at Los Angeles Incidents of the voyage from San Francisco to New York Startling rumors 65-76 CHAPTER IX. Arrival in Washington Mr. Hancock promoted to be a Brigadier-General Social life in Washington Mr. Stanton Trying to pass through the lines Mr. Dana 77-89 CHAPTER X. The spy system during the war The At Fredericksburg Hooker's remark before the fight Hooker replaced by Meade The advance in the direction of Gettysburg General Hancock wounded Removed to Norristown Stanton's letter to General Hancock Resolution passed, thanking General Hancock 90-102 CHAPTER XI Episode at the battle of Spotsylvania Recruiting a Veteran Corps News of Lincoln's assassination General Hancock's relations to the trial and execution of Mrs. Surratt Headquarters removed to Trip to the battle-field of Gettysburg 103-112

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CHAPTER XII. Transferred to the Department of Troubles with the Indians A stolen Chief The big chief of the house An Indian fight Ordered to to command the Fifth Military District 113-122 CHAPTER XIII. The journey to New Orleans How Order No. 40 was written Its grateful acceptation by the Southern people Reception at St. Vincent's Orphan Asylum The reign of the Carpet-Baggers An effort made to drop General Hancock from the army rolls Its failure General Hancock resigns his command of the Fifth Military District 123-132 CHAPTER XIV. General Grant and General Hancock Convention of 1868 General Hancock refuses to commit himself Letter from Hon. S. T. Glover, and reply Assigned to the command of the Fight with the Blackfeet Indians False sentiment in the East with reference to the Indians 133-143 CHAPTER XV. Convention of 1872 General Hancock's name proposed Transferred to the Division of the Atlantic The Babcock Court of Inquiry 144-150 CHAPTER XVI. Excitement during the campaign of 1876 General Hancock's letter to General Sherman 151-57 CHAPTER XVII. A rescinded order General Hancock's letter to Wm. H. Hurlburt Scheming against General Hancock His letter to General Sherman The Great Strikes Removing Headquarters to Governor's Island Anecdote of Russell Hancock 158-169 CHAPTER XVIII. General Hancock nominated for President His Acceptance The campaign How he received the news of his defeat The Yorktown Celebration Death of Russell Hancock Death of General Hancock His character Conclusion 170-181 APPENDIX A. Narrative of the Operations of the Second Army Corps, from the time General Hancock assumed command, June 9, 1863 (relieving Major-General D. N. Couch), until the close of the . By General C. H. Morgan, late Chief of Staff, Second Army Corps. 182-222 APPENDIX B. President Johnson's message to Congress General Order No. 40 Judge J. S. Black's letter to General Hancock 223-226 APPENDIX C. Note on Dr. W. G. Eliot 227-228 LETTERS AND ADDRESSES 229-338 Baldy Smith, 231-38 Thomas F. Bayard, 238-40 William C. Endicott, 241 William T. Sherman, 242-43 Philip H. Sheridan, 243-44 William B. Franklin, 244-49 Daniel E. Sickles, 249-252 Don Carlos Buell, 252-53

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James Grant Wilson, 253-56 John M. Schofield, 256-57 Thomas L. Crittenden, 257-59 Samuel J. Tilden, 259-60 George William Child, 260-62 Frederick D. Grant, 262-63 John B. Gordon, 263-65 Henry W. Slocum, 265 William W. Burns, 266 John F. Hartranft, 267-68 , 268-70 Orlando B. Willcox, 270-73 George W. Cullum, 273-276 Henry Coppée, 276-79 Thomas M. Vincent, 280-82 William P. Wilson, 282-84 E. W. Clark, 284-87 W. D. W. Miller, 287-89 , 289-93 William H. Lambert, 293-95 James H. Merryman, 295-96 Alexander J. Perry, 296-97 G. Norman Lieber, 297-99 Asa Bird Gardiner, 299 George F. Price, 299-300 G. Douglas Brewerton, 300 Walter F. Halleck, 301-2 Henry C. Cushing, 302-3 Samuel B. Lawrence, 303-4 Charles A. Whittier, 305 John P. Nicholson, 305-9 Greenleaf A. Goodale, 309-10 Egbert L. Viele, 310-11 Edward L. Molineux, 312-13 George W. Wingate, 313-15 Horatio C. King, 315-18 Anthony J. Drexel, 318 George Peabody Wetmore, 318 Joseph W. Drexel, 319 John R. Brady, 319-22 John Hay, 322-23 H. C. Goodwin, 323-25 George Small, 325-26 Benjamin H. Field, 326 Edward S. Bragg, 327 Thomas B. Musgrave, 327-29

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William H. Pender, 329 Daniel D. Whitney, 329-30 John R. Paxton, 330-31 Alfred Trumble, 331-34 Charles P. Stone, 334-35 Allen C. Redwood, 335-38 Henry M. Booth, 338 Howard Crosby, 338 Military record of Hancock, 339-40

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