Winfield Scott Hancock - in Memoriam

In Memoriam

Winfield Scott Hancock is memorialized in a number of statues:

• An equestrian statue on East Cemetery Hill on the Gettysburg Battlefield.
• A portrait statue as part of the Pennsylvania Memorial at Gettysburg.
• An alto-relievo representing Hancock's wounding during Pickett's Charge, on the New York State Monument at Gettysburg.
• An equestrian statue located at Pennsylvania Avenue and 7th Street, NW in Washington, D.C.
• An equestrian statue atop the Smith Civil War Memorial in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
• A monumental bronze bust in Hancock Square, New York City, by sculptor James Wilson Alexander MacDonald.

Hancock's portrait adorns U.S. currency on the $2 Silver Certificate series of 1886. Approximately 1,500 to 2,500 of these bills survive today in numismatic collections. Hancock's bill is ranked number 73 on a list of "100 Greatest American Currency Notes".