Three Friends.

[Robert Gray]

Three Federal generals - (from left) Winfield Scott Hancock, William F. Smith and John Newton pose for Vermont photographer George Houghton perhaps in June 1862, when they were with the VI Corps on the Virginia peninsula. Twenty years earlier they had been classmates at West Point and remained close through the war. In 1886, Smith served as a pallbearer in Hancock's funeral.

(An Illustrated History of the Civil War by William J. Miller and Brian C. Pohanka)
Generals Hancock, Smith and Newton, 1862
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Houghton, George H.
Vermont Historical Society

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[Sheltowee]

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[Stryker65]

General Smith hiding the source of his famous nickname, I see.