Major-Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock, commander of the Military Division of the Atlantic, died at headquarters, on Governor's Island, at 2:55 o'clock yesterday afternoon. His death, although sudden ...

As Katherine Arcement notes, when James A. Garfield defeated Winfield Scott Hancock, The Post had been in print for three years. We’ve been in the campaign reporting business ever since.

As a cadet at West Point, young Ulysses S. Grant considered General Winfield Scott "the finest specimen of manhood my eyes had ever beheld," and admired his skills as a general. Nicknamed "Old ...