Hancock the Superb the Early Life And Public Career of Winfield S Hancock
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As both the prisoner-Generals entered the tent of Hancock, the following dialogue ensued : INTERVIEW WITH GENERALS. 235 Hancock. "Ah! Johnson! Is it you? Let us shake hands. " Johnson. " Hancock ! this is dreadful. " Accept ing the hand so courteously proffered him, he burst into tears, and added : "I should have much preferred death to captivity. " Hancock. " I sympathize with you, Johnson ; but such, you know, is sometimes the fortune of war. You have fought well, and have no reason to feel p...ersonally disgraced. It might have been my lot to be your prisoner. " Johnson. " I know that ; but to be taken in such a wholesale manner is hard to bear. It is rough. " Hancock. " You know you will be treated like a gentleman, Johnson ; and held under the laws of war, with which you are familiar. " During this conversation Stuart was moving nerv ously around, his countenance the picture of dejection and chagrin. Hancock, who had s6ught to speak with him be fore, now approached him, with his hand extended.
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