Definition of Joseph hooker

1. Noun. United States general in the Union Army who was defeated at Chancellorsville by Robert E. Lee (1814-1879).

Exact synonyms: Fighting Joe Hooker, Hooker
Generic synonyms: Full General, General

Lexicographical Neighbors of Joseph Hooker

Joseph Alois Schumpeter
Joseph Banks Rhine
Joseph Black
Joseph Campbell
Joseph Conrad
Joseph Deems Taylor
Joseph Eggleston Johnston
Joseph Emerson Worcester
Joseph Francis Keaton
Joseph Goebbels
Joseph Greenberg
Joseph Haydn
Joseph Heller
Joseph Henry
Joseph Hilaire Peter Belloc
Joseph Hooker
Joseph Jacques Cesaire Joffre
Joseph Joachim
Joseph John Thomson
Joseph Lincoln Steffens
Joseph Lister
Joseph Louis Barrow
Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
Joseph M. Jacquard
Joseph Mallord William Turner
Joseph Marie Jacquard
Joseph McCarthy
Joseph Oliver
Joseph Paul DiMaggio
Joseph Paxton

Literary usage of Joseph hooker

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Role of Federal Military Forces in Domestic Disorders, 1789-1878 by Robert W. Coakley (1996)
"General Hooker, on the scene at Stanton's request, accurately predicted that no further resistance to the draft would appear in Indiana.80 joseph hooker The ..."

2. The Battle of Gettysburg: A Comprehensive Narrative by Jesse Bowman Young (1913)
"joseph hooker (1814-1879), a native of Massachusetts, was graduated from West Point in 1837; Jubal A. Early, commanding a division in the Confederate Army ..."

3. Perley's Reminiscences of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis by Benjamin Perley Poore (1886)
"GENERAL joseph hooker. Meanwhile General Grant was besieging Vicksburg, which had been well called " the Gibraltar of the Mississippi," and the people, ..."

4. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1853)
"Descriptions of some undescribed species of Reptiles collected bg Dr. joseph hooker in the ... joseph hooker, on his return from Thibet, Sikkim, ..."

5. A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records by Charles William Manwaring (1906)
"XVI) 4 June, 1751: Samuel Moodey, a minor, son of Ebenezer Moodey, late deceased, chose joseph hooker of Farming- ton to be his guardian. Recog., £300. ..."

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