Hooker
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Character Key:
Display Name:
Hooker
Sort Name:
Hooker, General Joseph
Race:
White
Gender:
Male
Class:
Middle Class
Rank:
Minor
Vitality:
Alive
Occupation:
Armed Forces
Specific Job:
Union General
First Mentioned:
Date of Birth:
Sunday, November 13, 1814
Origin:
Massachusetts
Other Texts:
Biography:
General 'Fighting Joe' Hooker briefly had command of the Union's Army of the Potomac. He is best known for leading a superior Union army to a resounding defeat at Lee's hands at the 1863 battle of Chancellorsville, when (as Cass Edmonds puts it) Stonewall Jackson's men "rolled up the flank which Hooker believed could not be turned" while Hooker himself was "drinking rum toddies and telegraphing Lincoln that he had defeated Lee" (272).
Ontological Status:
Historical/Real
Individual or Group:
Individual
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