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Fighting Joe Hooker   /fˈaɪtɪŋ dʒoʊ hˈʊkər/   Listen
Fighting Joe Hooker

noun
1.
United States general in the Union Army who was defeated at Chancellorsville by Robert E. Lee (1814-1879).  Synonyms: Hooker, Joseph Hooker.






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"Fighting Joe Hooker" Quotes from Famous Books



... for the winter. The Mud March had broken up these cantonments; but after a few days' absence the several regiments returned to their old camps, and the same huts had generally been re-occupied by the same men. But when Fighting Joe Hooker's orders to march were issued, no one dreamed of any thing but victory; and the Army of the Potomac burned its ships. Nothing was left standing but the mud walls from which the shelter-tent roofs had been stripped, ...
— The Campaign of Chancellorsville • Theodore A. Dodge

... Hooker was Brigadier-General Hooker. He served with distinction under McClellan in the Peninsular campaign and at Antietam, and commanded the right wing of the army at Fredericksburg. He had come to be known as "Fighting Joe Hooker," and was generally regarded as one of the most vigorous and efficient Generals of ...
— The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln • Francis Fisher Browne



Words linked to "Fighting Joe Hooker" :   general, hooker, full general



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