LINCOLN & UNION COMMANDERS

[ForeverFree]

LINCOLN & UNION COMMANDERS

Nice collage of the seated President surrounded by his military commanders. Included are Admiral David Farragut, William Sherman, George Thomas, George Meade, U.S. Grant, Joseph Hooker and Phil Sheridan. Attributed to Notman Photo Co, Boston, with "Compliments of The Travelers Insurance Company."

- Alan

This is a larger version of the same image:

 

[Copperhead-mi]

Wonder who the guy is at the right end seated next to Sheridan?

 

[ForeverFree]

Wonder who the guy is at the right end seated next to Sheridan?

I have the same question. Someone here will know.

- Alan

 

[Mike Serpa]

Hancock. The photo on the wall above Meade is Scott.

 

[brass napoleon]

Hancock

You just beat me to it!

 

[Elennsar]

Hancock. The photo on the wall above Meade is Scott.

Poor Hancock looks like someone stole ten years of his life and isn't giving them back.

 

[Eric Wittenberg]

That's from a photo taken about the time that Hancock ran for president. It's not Civil War vintage.

 

[Mark F. Jenkins]

Those photo collages always amuse me. Some of them are worse/more obvious than others.

 

[Eric Wittenberg]

Here is that image of Hancock.

 

[Elennsar]

Here is that image of Hancock.

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That would explain it. Still. This is not the vigorously looking Hancock the Superb we picture based on "prior to and including Gettysburg", even allowing for being fifty-six.

 

[Eric Wittenberg]

That would explain it. Still. This is not the vigorously looking Hancock the Superb we picture based on "prior to and including Gettysburg", even allowing for being fifty-six.

Which is proof positive of the toll that his Gettysburg wound took on him. It plagued him for the rest of his life.

 

[Elennsar]

Which is proof positive of the toll that his Gettysburg wound took on him. It plagued him for the rest of his life.

I wonder why it was so crippling. I mean, this goes beyond "in wet weather my knee hurts" pain into a guy whose 1864 performance is "Who are you and what did you do with General Hancock?".

"Mere" pain? Shattered health overall (which seems fitting judging by that photograph)? "Treatments' that clouded his mind? All of the above?

 

[Eric Wittenberg]

The ball struck the wooden pommel of his saddle and drove fragments of the wood deep into his leg. From what I understand, those fragments continued to work their way to the surface and foster infections for the rest of his life. Also, the nature of the wound was such that I don't know that it ever closed completely.

 

[Elennsar]

The ball struck the wooden pommel of his saddle and drove fragments of the wood deep into his leg. From what I understand, those fragments continued to work their way to the surface and foster infections for the rest of his life. Also, the nature of the wound was such that I don't know that it ever closed completely.

That sounds like something that would never stop being "a bad day" - except to be "an even worse day". There's no way to just pretend that's not gnawing you to pieces, physically or mentally - not without being so drugged up you might be better off (as far as doing anything strenuous goes) just gritting your teeth.

 

[Eric Wittenberg]

That sounds like something that would never stop being "a bad day" - except to be "an even worse day". There's no way to just pretend that's not gnawing you to pieces, physically or mentally - not without being so drugged up you might be better off (as far as doing anything strenuous goes) just gritting your teeth.

Precisely. It was just the sort of thing to be constantly nagging, constantly a nuisance and never far from your conscious mind.

 

[Billy Yank]

I might've swapped-out Little Phil or Hooker for Little Mac. McClellan wasn't part of the final victory dance as perhaps this photo depicts, but he did contribute to the bottom line. What about Ol' Brains?

 

[Elennsar]

Precisely. It was just the sort of thing to be constantly nagging, constantly a nuisance and never far from your conscious mind.

Makes you wonder why Hancock didn't claim disability (earlier). Fear of being seen as a mere coward? Overruled by his superiors?

Whatever it was, it's a crying shame - Hancock in all his glory in the Overland Campaign would be just what the Army of the Potomac needed.

I might've swapped-out Little Phil or Hooker for Little Mac. McClellan wasn't part of the final victory dance as perhaps this photo depicts, but he did contribute to the bottom line. What about Ol' Brains?

I'd definitely put Ol' Brains over BOTH Hooker and Little Phil, but if one has to stay, let's keep Hooker. At least he improved something in the Army of the Potomac.

 

[Copperhead-mi]

Hancock. The photo on the wall above Meade is Scott.

Thank you.

 

[Mike Serpa]

 

[Eric Wittenberg]

Makes you wonder why Hancock didn't claim disability (earlier). Fear of being seen as a mere coward? Overruled by his superiors?

Whatever it was, it's a crying shame - Hancock in all his glory in the Overland Campaign would be just what the Army of the Potomac needed.

Definitely not Hancock's style. He was a lead from the front kind of guy and he was a fighter.