<p style="text-align:center"><strong>DAVID P. HANCOCK</strong></p><p style="text-align:center"><strong>No. 1665 · Class of 1854</strong></p><p style="text-align:center"><strong>Died May 21, 1880, at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, aged 47 years.</strong></p><p>Col. Hancock was appointed a Cadet to West Point from Philadelphia, July 1st, 1849, and was graduated 35 in his Class, July 1st, 1854, when he was brevetted Second Lieutenant of Infantry, and ordered to service on frontier duty at Fort Arbuckle, Indian Territory. He remained there three years, receiving his commission as Second Lieutenant, Seventh Infantry, March 3rd, 1855, and as First Lieutenant, April 20th, 1858. He was engaged in the Utah Expedition from 1858 to 1861; was made Captain in the same Regiment, May 27th, 1861, and was engaged in the action of Mesilla, New Mexico, July 25th, 1861. Two days after, when on the march from Fort Fillmore to San Augustine Springs, he was surrendered to Texan Insurgents, and remained a captive until August 28th, 1862, when he was exchanged. He commanded his Regiment in the Rappahannock Campaign from December 1862, to June 1863, taking part in the Battle of Fredericksburgh, Dec. 13th, 1862, and the Battle of Chancellorsville, May 3-4, 1863. He also commanded the Regiment in the Pennsylvania Campaign, being engaged in the Battle of Gettysburg, July 1-3, 1863, and in the pursuit of the Confederates to Warrenton, Virginia. For gallant and meritorious conduct at Gettysburg, he was made Brevet Major, and afterward�March 13th, 1865�Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel. In August 1863, he served in New York City, in the suppression of the draft riots, and was then ordered to the garrison at Fort Schuyler, where he remained from Sept. 1863, to March 1864. From March 3rd to October 10th, 1864, he was in charge of the drafted men of the middle district of Pennsylvania with whom he moved to the defense of the State against General Early's rebel raiders in July of that year. He was in garrison at Fort Richmond, New York, from October 1864 to May 1865, when he was ordered to Fort Clinch, Florida, and thence to Tallahassee, where he remained from October 1865 to January 1866. Since then he has been engaged mostly in recruiting service and garrison duty in the South and West.</p><p>He was commissioned Major of the Second Infantry, October 24th, 1874. From October 16th, 1877, until about a year ago he was attached to Camp Howard, Indian Territory. For the past year he had been residing at his home, in Harrisburg, on sick leave.</p><p style="text-align:right">� Secretary of the Association</p><p style="text-align:center"><a href="https://usmalibrary.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/aogreunion/id/9761">Annual Report, June 17, 1880, pp. 105�106 · U.S. Military Academy Library</a></p>