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Vol. III |
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William F. Hancock |
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Military History. — Cadet at the Military Academy, July 1, 1879, to June 13, 1883, when he was graduated and promoted in the Army to Second Lieut., 5th Artillery, June 13, 1883. Served: in garrison at Ft. Schuyler, N. Y., Sep. 30, 1883 (leave of absence, Dec. 22, 1885, to Feb. 24, 1886), to Aug. 26, 1886, — and at the Artillery School for Practice, Ft. Monroe, Va., to Sep. 1, 1888; and on frontier duty at Ft. Douglas, Utah, to –––––. First Lieut., 5th Artillery, Oct. 4, 1889. Vol. IV Military History. — Served: At Fort Douglas, Utah, to May 13, 1890; at Presidio, San Francisco, Cal., to Oct. 1, 1890; at Alcatraz Island, Cal., to June 18, 1892; at Fort Canby, Wash., to Dec. 19, 1892; on special recruiting service to March 1, 1893; at New York Arsenal, N. Y., on special duty in connection with World's Columbian Exposition, to Dec. 1, 1893; on leave to Feb. 7, 1894. — Professor of Military Science and Tactics at the Western Military Academy, Upper Alton, Ill., Feb. 7 to Sept. 1, 1894; at the Washington University, St. Louis, Mo., to Oct., 1894. — Garrison duty at Fort Hamilton, N. Y., to May, 1898. (Transferred to 6th Artillery, April 29, 1898)
(Captain and Asst. Adjutant-General, U. S. Volunteers,
— Assistant Adjutant-General, 1st Brigade, 2d Division, 1st Corps, May 31 to Oct. 22, 1898; of the 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 1st Army Corps, to Feb. 10, 1899, being stationed at Camp Thomas, Ga., May 31 to Aug., 1898; at Camp Thomas, Ga., at Knoxville, Ten.,a to Dec., 1898; and at Sancti Spiritus, Cuba, Jan. 24, 1899. — Assistant Adjutant-General, Department of Santa Clara, at Cienfuegos, Cuba, Feb. 10 to March, 1899; (Captain of Artillery, 6th Artillery, March 2, 1899) (Honorably discharged from Volunteer Service, April 14, 1899) p368 garrison duty at Fort Monroe, Va., March 11 to April 12, 1899. — En route to and in Philippines to ––––– Vol. V Military History. — Served: At Fort Monroe, Va., March to April 15, 1899; in Philippines, to Sept., 1901; at Alcatraz Island, Cal., to June, 1902; at Fort Miley, San Francisco, to Oct., 1903; at Fort Flagler, Puget Sound, to Oct., 1904; at Fort Casey, Puget Sound, to Oct., 1906. (Major, Artillery Corps, Oct. 3, 1906) — At Key West Barracks, Fla., Nov., 1906 to June, 1907; commanding Artillery, District of Tampa, June 10, 1907 to Oct. 8, 1907; Fort Barrancas, Fla., from Oct., 1907 to –––––.º
Major, U. S. A., Retired Sept. 9, 1909,
Vol. VI (William Frederick Hancock, Born Aug. 29, 1860.) Military History. — Major, Artillery Corps, Oct. 3, 1906.
Major, U. S. A., Retired, Sept. 9, 1909,
Vol. VII Military History: —
Major, U. S. A., Retired, Sept. 9, 1909,
Vol. VIII Military History: — Maj., Ret., Sept. 9, 1909. Died, Mar. 16, 1931, at Washington, D. C.: Aged 70. |
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Sic. Maybe this should read "Camp Poland, at Knoxville, Ten." As you can read in that article at FortWiki, Gen. Poland had just died, and the Knoxville camp was renamed for him, in that same month of August, 1899.
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