Joe Hooker

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Joe Hooker

• By Jon Wilske

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Joe Hooker

• 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
  Mexico.

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Joe Hooker

• Unfortunately for his later career he testified
  against Winfield Scott before a court of inquiry
  on the Mexican War. After a two-year leave he
  resigned on February 21, 1853, to settle in
  California where he was in the farming and land
  businesses.

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Joe Hooker

•         At the outset of the Civil War he became
  a colonel of the state militia but soon offered
  his services to Washington where his anti-Scott
  testimony came back to haunt him. As a civilian
  he witnessed the disaster at lst Bull Run and
  wrote to Lincoln complaining of the mismanagement
  and advancing his own claim to a commission.

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Joe Hooker

•         After leading a brigade and then a
  division around Washington he went with
  McClellan's army to the Peninsula, earning a
  reputation for looking after his men during the
  siege operations at Yorktown. His other
  reputation as a heavy user of alcohol was not so
  enviable.

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Joe Hooker

•         Given command of a corps for the Maryland
  Campaign, he fought at South Mountain and was
  wounded in the foot early in the morning fighting
  at Antietam. Three days later he was named a
  regular army brigadier general. Returning to
  duty, he briefly commanded the 5th Corps before
  being given charge of the Center Grand Division
  when Burnside reorganized his army into these
  two-corps formations.

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