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Hancock, Winfield Scott

09-03-2005, 05:21 PM

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Hancock, Winfield Scott

"There are times when a corps commander's life does not count."

Hancock at Cemetery Ridge, Gettysburg, July 3, 1863, when a subordinate officer suggested that Hancock, as a corps commander, should not risk his life by positioning himself so close to the front line.

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