 As the Confederates charged the Union lines on Cemetery Hill General Hancock passed behind his troops, on horseback, to steady them under the horrendous fire they were receiving. As he did so, a minie ball passed through his saddle and embedded itself in his upper thigh near the groin. He was helped down from his horse but refused to leave the field until the outcome was apparent. An aide propped him up against an empty ammunition case and applied a tourniquet to his wound by winding a piece of cloth around a pistol barrel.
This carving, in Butternut, depicts General Hancock, with the pistol barrel tourniquet around his leg, intently following the battle as it progresses.
The piece is currently on display in the Southwood Sculpture Studio
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