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One of the revelations in reading Grant biographies was the not so superb overview given of Hancock at the beginning of the Overland Campaign:
My questions are: Do you think that this was the result of:
This left Winfield Scott Hancock as the most reliable corps commander in Meade's army. Even he was less than flawless. His aggressiveness concealed his inability to reconnoiter either the enemy's position or or the ground over which he was to advance. Such had been the case on May 10 [1864] and it would be the same again. Before departing to join Burnside, Comstock picked out the place where Hancock would form his corps in preparation for the attack; however, neither Meade nor Hancock examined the terrain in front of them. Brooks D Simpson, Triumph Over Adversity, [P 309]
- Hancock suffering from his injury
- The nature of difficult terrain
- Hancock was overrated to begin with
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