Our family's home on Officers' Row
while we were stationed at Fort Hancock.

House #1 (History House) has been restored
by the Sandy Hook Veterans and is open to
the public on weekends.

General Winfield Scott Hancock, after whom Fort Hancock at Sandy Hook is named.

He graduated from West Point in 1844, fought with distinction in the Mexican War, and commanded the II Corps of the Army of the Potomac. A Civil War hero, and fearless in battle, he was wounded at Gettysburg defending Cemetery Ridge against Pickett's Charge.

He was a Presidential candidate for the Democrats in 1880, but felt it was undignified for a soldier to campaign for votes. (Legend has it his only slogan referred to the Civil War and was: "Vote the way you shot!") It is said he narrowly lost the election only because he campaigned so little.