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During the Peninsula Campaign Joseph Hooker distinguished himself as an aggressive combat commander as he led the Second Division of the III Corps. He was particularly successful at the Battle of Williamsburg on May 5, after which he was promoted to Major General. When McClellan's army retreated from Richmond, Samuel Heintzelman's III Corps ...
3 giorni fa · 1814–79 Massachusetts Major General. Nicknamed "Fighting Joe" for his reputed exploits in the Battle of Williamsburg, Joseph Hooker was a career U.S. Army officer, rising to the rank of major ...
President Lincoln appointed General Joseph Hooker to command the Army of the Potomac in January 1863. In April 1863, Hooker had 130,000 men compared to the Confederate Army’s 60,000. The Union forces had more food, clothing, and ammunition. On a decisive day of the Chancellorsville campaign, as Hooker stood on his headquarters porch, a cannonball struck the pillar against which he was ...
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM GCSI CB PRS (30 June 1817 – 10 December 1911) was a British botanist and explorer in the 19th century. He was a founder of geographical botany and Charles Darwin 's closest friend. [2]
Overview One of the most immodest and immoral of the high Union commanders, “Fighting Joe” Hooker frequently felt slighted by his superiors and requested to be relieved of duty. The Massachusetts native and West Pointer (1837) had been posted to the artillery but was serving as a staff officer when he won three brevets in
8 lug 2019 · American Civil War: Major General Joseph Hooker. Born November 13, 1814, at Hadley, MA, Joseph Hooker was the son of local store owner Joseph Hooker and Mary Seymour Hooker. Raised locally, his family came from old New England stock and his grandfather had served as a captain during the American Revolution. After receiving his early education ...
HOOKER, Sir Joseph Dalton. Botanico e viaggiatore, nato a Halesworth (Suffolk) il 30 giugno 1817, morto a Sunningdale il 10 dicembre 1911. Si laureò in medicina all'università di Glasgow, dove il padre, sir William J. Hooker, insegnava botanica. Accolto nella spedizione antartica di sir James Ross (1839-1843) sulla nave Erebus, al ritorno ...
