- Winfield Scott Hancock, Major General, Army of the Potomac, 1st Division, II Corps, Presidential Candidate - AN ORATION DELIVERED AT CHARLESTOWN JUNE 17, 1875, IN COMMEMORATION OF THE CENTENNIAL ANNIVERSARY OF THE BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL by Devens, Charles Jr., Boston: Privately Printed, 1876. 8vo, green printed wrappers, 56pp, unopened. Wrappers chipped, soiled. Library sticker to front wrapper. Good. Major General Winfield Scott Hancocks copy, with his bookplate to front wrapper. From Wikipedia: Winfield Scott was a United States Army officer and the Democratic nominee for President of the United States in 1880. He served with distinction in the Army for four decades, including service in the Mexican–American War and as a Union general in the American Civil War. Known to his Army colleagues as Hancock the Superb, he was noted in particular for his personal leadership at the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863. His military service continued after the Civil War, as Hancock participated in the military Reconstruction of the South and the U.S. ethnic cleansing of Native Americans at the Western frontier. This concluded with the Medicine Lodge Treaty. From 1881 to 1885 he was president of the Aztec Club of 1847 for veteran officers of the Mexican-American War. Hancocks reputation as a war hero at Gettysburg, combined with his status as a Unionist and supporter of states rights, made him a potential presidential candidate. When the Democrats nominated him for President in 1880, he ran a strong campaign, but was narrowly defeated by Republican James A. Garfield. Hancock's last public service involved the oversight of President Ulysses S. Grant's funeral procession in 1885.