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===Marriage and peacetime=== [[File:Almira Russell Hancock.png|thumb|Almira Russell, around the time she married Hancock]] Hancock served in a number of assignments as an army [[United States Army Quartermaster Corps|quartermaster]] and [[adjutant]], mostly in [[Fort Snelling, Minnesota|Fort Snelling]], [[Minnesota]] and [[St. Louis, Missouri|St. Louis]], [[Missouri]].<ref>Tucker, p. 44.</ref> It was in St. Louis that he met Almira ("Allie") Russell and they married on January 24, 1850.<ref>Walker, pp. 21β22.</ref> Allie gave birth to two children, Russell in 1850 and Ada in 1857, but both children died before their parents.<ref>Walker, p. 22.</ref> Hancock was promoted to [[Captain (U.S. Army)|captain]] in 1855 and assigned to [[Fort Myers, Florida|Fort Myers]], [[Florida]].<ref>Jordan, p. 24.</ref> Hancock's young family accompanied him to his new posting, where Allie Hancock was the only woman on the post.<ref>Jordan, p. 25; Hancock, pp. 24β27.</ref> Hancock's tour in Florida coincided with the end of the [[Seminole War|Third Seminole War]]. His duties were primarily those of a quartermaster, and he did not see action in that campaign.<ref name=jordan25>Jordan, p. 25.</ref> As the situation in Florida began to settle down, Hancock was reassigned to [[Fort Leavenworth]], [[Kansas]].<ref name=jordan25/> He served in the West during the partisan warfare of "[[Bleeding Kansas]]", and in the [[Utah Territory]], where the 6th Infantry arrived after the [[Utah War]].<ref name=Cluff/> Following the resolution of that conflict, Hancock was stationed in southern [[California]] in November 1858.<ref>Jordan, pp. 26β27.</ref> He remained there, joined by Allie and the children, until the Civil War broke out in 1861, serving as a captain and assistant quartermaster under future [[Confederate States Army|Confederate]] General [[Albert Sidney Johnston]].<ref Name=Eicher/> In California, Hancock became friendly with a number of southern officers, most significantly [[Lewis A. Armistead]] of [[Virginia]].<ref>Jordan, pp. 28β32.</ref> At the outbreak of the Civil War, Armistead and the other southerners left to join the [[Confederate States Army]], while Hancock remained in the service of the United States.<ref>Jordan, pp. 33β34.</ref>
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