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