GDG- Re: Bingham spun much of Hancock's personal memior on GB

[DShultz180 at aol.com]

> <<Second Corps staff officer Captain Henry Bingham was the officer who 
> took  Armistead's valuables (with Armistead's permission) and was the one who 
> passed  Armistead's message to General Hancock.>>
> 
One only has to read Hancock's memoirs of Gettysburg to understand Bingham 
and Morgan were both grand at spinning the truth about incidents and issues as 
well making mistakes on many.

You can actually follow Bingham's follies quite clearly in the Bachelder 
Papers whereas Hancock either denies many incidents are simply states he did not 
remember, he forgot, or he understood it to be. Contact Bingham because he 
relayed them to him. Great case in point that comes to mind is Bingham's mistake 
concerning the 5th U.C. Batt C (Wier),19th Maine and 4th U.S. Batt K 
(Selley/James) July 2.   The second is the Hancock/McGilvery issue July 3rd and of 
course the Hunt/Hancock incident the same day.   
 
To much detail to elaborate but for what it's worth Hunt assumed full 
responsibility later in life for making the mistake of asking Bingham (happened upon 
him after leaving CH) to silence the batteries north of the Copse of Trees 
while he handle those to the South. 

Dave S.



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