Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1894 — STATUE OF GEN. HANCOCK. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

STATUE OF GEN. HANCOCK.

Bet Up at Gettysburg In That Soldier’s Honor. The State of Pennsylvania has given SIOO,OOO for the erection of three statues on tho field of Gettysburg and one of them is of Gon. Winfield Scott Hancock. The plaiter cast of this last has just beon finished by tho artist, F. Edwin Ehvell, of New York. and this will now be cast in bronze. Tho statue will stand on Cemetery Hill, where

Sith Gen. Howard and his staff Gen. ancock discussed the battle. The figure is supposed to represent him in the act of telling his asm oiates that the brunt of the battle would fall on Round Top. The sculptor’s idea has been to represent the intellectual characteristics of the commander, and not the merely physical. The height of the horse is six feet six inches to the withers, and the ent re height of tho statue is seventeen feet. The horse stands on a well designed architectural pinth, tho work of a friend of the sculptor. On-eaeh side is a cartouch bearing on one tho namo of the Mulpto" and on the other the namn' * < Haneo(!k." ——- Gen. Hancock is represented seated in the saddle in a position which Capt. Ward, who was his aid during the war, has pronounced vory characteristic. There is no sword or other appurtenance, the purpose being to malco tho statue broad and dignified in effect. The face wears an expression of intenss interest and the eyes are looking out over the Hold. The horse has three 'eet on the ground and one raised pawing the air.

THE HANCOCK STATUE.