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Education continues to be the object of sch Jous attention on the part of Presiden Re who tas brought the system of public school to its present prosperous condition. T amount expended on public instruction in was $800,000, against $1.59 in 15711 cation is compul-ory, and parents or guar not providing for the model calture of th curca in private schools, or by private e don, are required to send them to the able There are at present eighteen ratol tastrofe de primery schools in the capital, Actie not ares are being taken for the educate 9 07 Indian populition.

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of the Confederate service. He graduated at West Point, June 30, 1844; was brevetted second-lieutenant in the Sixth Infantry, July 1, 1844, and assigned to duty at Fort Towson, in the Indian Territory, June 18, 1846; he received his commission as second-lieutenant in a company of his regiment which was stationed on the frontier of Mexico,, where the difficulties which afterward resulted in the Mexican War had already begun.

He was ordered to active service in the field in the summer of 1847, and reached his regiment at Puebla, under the command of General Pierce, in time to join the army of General Scott in its advance upon the Mexican capital. He participated in the four principal battles (Contreras, Churubusco, Molino del Rey, and Chapultepec), which resulted in the capture of the city of Mexico, and was brevetted first-lieutenant for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battles of Contreras and Churubusco. From 1848 to 1855, he was stationed at St. Louis, acting as aide-de-camp to Brigadier-General N. S. Clarke. Lieutenant Hancock was married, January 24, 1850, to Almira Russell, daughter of Samuel Russell, a merchant of St. Louis. November 7, 1855, he was appointed quartermaster with the rank of captain, and ordered to Fort Myers, Florida, where General Harney was in command of the military forces operating against the hostile Seminoles. He served under this officer during the troubles in Kansas in 1857 and 1858, and afterward accompanied his expedition to Utah, where serious complications had arisen between the Gentiles and Mormons. From 1859 to 1861 Captain Hancock was quartermaster of the Southern District of California. At the breaking out of the civil war in 1861 he asked to be relieved from duty on the Pacific coast, and transferred to more active service at the seat of war. He reported himself for duty at Washington early in September. In a letter to a friend at this time he said, "My politics are of a practical kind-the integrity of the country, the supremacy of the Federal Government, an honorable peace, or none at all." He was commissioned a brigadier-general of volunteers by President Lincoln, September 23, 1861, and at once bent all his energies to aid in the organization of the Army of the Potomac. During the Peninsular campaign under General McClellan he was especially conspicuous at the battles of Williamsburg and Frazier's Farm. He took an active part in the subsequent campaign in Maryland,

at the battles of South Mountain and Antietam. He was assigned to the command of the First Division of the Second Army Corps, on the battle-field, during the second day's' fight at Antietam, September 17, 1862. He was soon after made a major-general of volunteers, and commanded this division in the attempt to storm Marye's Heights, at the battle of Fredericksburg, December 13, 1862. In this assault General Hancock led his men through such a fire as has rarely been encountered in warfare.

In the three days' fight at Chancellorsville in May, 1863, Hancock's division took a prominent part. While on the march through western Maryland after the invading army of General Lee, on June 25th, he was ordered by the President to assume command of the Second Army Corps. On the 27th, General Hooker asked to be relieved from the command of the Army of the Potomac; and orders from the War Department reached his headquarters near Frederick, Maryland, assigning Major-General George G. Meade to its command. On the 1st of July the report reached General Meade, who was fifteen miles distant, that there was fighting at Gettysburg, and that General Reynolds was killed. General Meade, who knew nothing of Gettysburg, sent General Hancock with orders to take immediate command of the forces and report what should be done; whether to give the enemy battle there, or fall back to the proposed line at Pipe-clay Creek. He reported that he considered Gettysburg the place to fight the coming battle. He continued in command until the arrival of General Meade. In the decisive action of July 3d he commanded on the left center, which was the main point assailed by the Confederates, and was shot from his horse. Though dangerously wounded, he remained on the field till he saw that the enemy's assault was broken, when he dispatched his aide-de-camp, Major W. G. Mitchell, with the following message: "Tell General Meade that the troops under my command have repulsed the enemy's assault, and that we have gained a great victory. The enemy is now flying in all directions in my front." General Meade returned this reply: "Say to General Hancock that I regret exceedingly that he is wounded, and that I thank him in the name of the country and for myself for the service he has rendered to-day." In a report to General Meade, after he had been carried from the field, he says that, when he left the line of battle "not a rebel was in sight upright, and if the Fifth and Sixth Corps are pressed up, the enemy will be destroyed." abled by his wound, he was not again on active duty until March, 1864, being meanwhile engaged in recruiting the Second Army Corps. He resumed command of this corps at the opening of the spring campaign of that year, and bore a prominent part in the battles of the Wilderness, where the fighting was almost constant from May 5th to the 26th. In the fight at Spottsylvania Court-House, where General Lee's right center formed a sharp salient, "the Angle," General Hancock on the night of the 11th moved to a position within 1,200 yards of it, and early in the morning of the 12th stormed it. His heavy column overran the Confederate pickets without firing a shot, burst through the abatis, and after a short hand-to-hand conflict inside the intrenchments captured "nearly four thousand prisoners, twenty pieces of artillery, with horses, caissons, and material complete, several thousand stand of small-arms, and up

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