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See also:- HOOKER, JOSEPH (1814–1879)
- HOOKER, RICHARD (1553-1600)
- HOOKER, SIR JOSEPH DALTON (1817— English botanist and traveller, second son of the famous botanist Sir W.J.Hooker, was born on the 3oth of June 1817, at Halesworth, Suffolk. He was educated at Glasgow University, and almost immediately after taking his M.
- HOOKER, SIR WILLIAM JACKSON (1785–1865)
- HOOKER, THOMAS (1586–1647)
HOOKER, See also:JOSEPH (1814–1879) , See also:American See also:general, was See also:born in See also:Hadley, See also:Massachusetts, on the 13th of See also:November 1814. He was educated at the military See also:academy at See also:West Point (1833-1837), and on graduating entered the 1st U. S. See also:Artillery. In the See also:war with See also:Mexico (1846–48) he served as a See also:staff officer, and See also:rose by successive brevets for meritorious services to the See also:rank of See also:lieutenant-See also:colonel. In 1853 he See also:left the service and bought a large See also:farm near Sonoma, Cal., which he managed successfully till 1858, when he was made See also:superintendent of military roads in See also:Oregon. Upon the opening of hostilities in the See also:Civil War of 1861-65, he sacrificed his See also:fine See also:estate and offered his See also:sword to the Federal See also:Government. He was commissioned brigadier-general of See also:volunteers on the 17th of May 1861 and See also:major-general on the 5th of May 1862. The engagement of See also:Williamsburg (May 5th) brought him and his subordinate See also:Hancock into prominence, and Hooker received the soubriquet of "Fighting Joe." He was engaged at the See also:battle of See also:Fair Oaks, and did splendid service to the See also:Union See also:army during the " Seven Days." In the See also:campaign of See also:Northern See also:Virginia, under General See also:Pope (See also:August 1862), he led his See also:division with fiery See also:energy at Bristoe Station, See also:Manassas and See also:Chantilly. In the See also:Maryland campaign (See also:September) he was at the See also:head of the I. See also:corps, Army of the See also:Potomac. forced the See also:defile of See also:South See also:Mountain and opened the way for the advance of the army. The I. corps opened the See also:great battle of the See also:Antietam, and sustained a sanguinary fight with the Confederates under Stonewall See also:Jackson. Hooker himself was severely wounded. He was commissioned brigadier-general in the See also:United States army on the loth of September 1862, and in the battle of Fredericksburg (q.v.), under See also:Burnside, he commanded the centre See also:grand division (III. and V. corps). He had protested against the useless slaughter of his men on that disastrous See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field, and when Burnside resigned the command Hooker succeeded him. The new See also:leader effected a much-needed re-organization in the army, which had fought many battles without success. In this task, as in subordinate commands in battle, Hooker was excelled by few. But his See also:grave defects as a See also:commander-in-See also:chief were soon to be obvious. By a well-planned and well-executed flanking See also:movement, he placed himself on the enemy's flank, but at the decisive moment he checked the advance of his troops. See also:- LEE
- LEE (or LEGIT) ROWLAND (d. 1543)
- LEE, ANN (1736–1784)
- LEE, ARTHUR (1740–1792)
- LEE, FITZHUGH (1835–1905)
- LEE, GEORGE ALEXANDER (1802-1851)
- LEE, HENRY (1756-1818)
- LEE, JAMES PRINCE (1804-1869)
- LEE, NATHANIEL (c. 1653-16g2)
- LEE, RICHARD HENRY (1732-1794)
- LEE, ROBERT EDWARD (1807–1870)
- LEE, SIDNEY (1859– )
- LEE, SOPHIA (1950-1824)
- LEE, STEPHEN DILL (1833-1908)
Lee turned upon him, Jackson surprised and destroyed a whole army corps, and the battle of See also:Chancellorsville (see See also:WILDERNESS), in which Hooker was himself disabled, ended in a See also:retreat to the old position. Yet Hooker had not entirely forfeited the confidence of his men, to whom he was still "Fighting Joe." The second advance of Lee into
Union territory, which led to the battle of See also:Gettysburg, was strenuously resisted by Hooker, who would have inflicted a heavy See also:blow on Lee's scattered forces had he not been condemned to inaction by orders from See also:Washington. Even then Hooker followed the Confederates a See also:day only behind them, until, finding himself distrusted and forbidden to See also:control the movements of troops within the See also:sphere of operations, he resigned the command on the See also:eve of the battle (See also:June 28, 1863). Faults of See also:temper and an excessive sense of responsibility made his continued occupation of the command impossible, but when after a See also:signal defeat See also:Rosecrans was besieged in See also:Chattanooga, and See also:- GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
- GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
- GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
- GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
- GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
- GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
- GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
- GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
- GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
- GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
- GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
- GRANT, U
- GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)
Grant. with all the forces of the West was hurried to the See also:- RESCUE (in Middle Eng. rescous, from O. Fr. recousse, Low Lat. rescussa, from reexcussa,reexcutere, to shake off again, re, again, ex, off, quatere, to shake)
rescue, two corps of the Army of the Potomac were sent over by See also:rail, and Hooker, who was at least one of the finest fighting generals of the service, went with them in command. He fought and won the " Battle above the Clouds " on Lookout Mountain which cleared the way for the crowning victory of the army of the See also:Cumberland on Missionary See also:Ridge (see CHATTANOOGA). And in command of the same corps (consolidated as the XX. corps) he took See also:part in all the battles and combats of the See also:Atlanta campaign of 1864. When General McPherson was killed before Atlanta, the command of Grant's old Army of the See also:Tennessee See also:fell vacant. Hooker, who, though only a corps commander, was See also:senior to the other army commanders, See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas and See also:Schofield, was normally entitled to receive it, but General See also:Sherman feared to commit a whole army to the guidance of a See also:man of Hooker's See also:peculiar temperament, and the See also:place was given. to See also:Howard. Hooker thereupon left the army. He was commissioned brevetmajor-general in the United States army on the r3th of See also:March 1865, and retired from active service with the full rank of major-general on the 15th of See also:October 1868, in consequence of a paralytic seizure. The last years of his See also:life were passed in the neighbourhood of New See also:York. He died at See also:Garden See also:City, See also:Long See also:Island, on the 31st of October 1879.
End of Article: HOOKER, JOSEPH (1814–1879)
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