Hancock the Superb by Mort Kunstler - So many times, he was there when decisive leadership was so desperately needed. In the Peninsula Campaign. At Chancellorsville. Antietam. Gettysburg. There, and on other bloody fields of fire and fury, General Winfield Scott Hancock distinguished himself in defense of the Union. Named for General Winfield Scott - hero of the War of 1812 and the Mexican War - he graduated from West Point in the class of ’44 in time to serve under his namesake in Mexico.