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Joseph Hooker   /dʒˈoʊsəf hˈʊkər/   Listen
Joseph Hooker

noun
1.
United States general in the Union Army who was defeated at Chancellorsville by Robert E. Lee (1814-1879).  Synonyms: Fighting Joe Hooker, Hooker.






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"Joseph Hooker" Quotes from Famous Books



... had slackened to a funereal crawl, and the absurdly little chance of surprising Lee had vanished altogether, this despairing "Mud March" came to its wretched end. Four days later Burnside was superseded by one of his own subordinates, General Joseph Hooker, known to all ranks ...
— Captains of the Civil War - A Chronicle of the Blue and the Gray, Volume 31, The - Chronicles Of America Series • William Wood

... to think scientifically, saw that this is the logical line of proof or disproof. When Sir Joseph Hooker, the botanist and geologist who was his closest friend, wrote of a supposed case of maternal impression, one of his kinswomen having insisted that a mole which appeared on her child was the effect of fright upon herself for having, before the birth of the child, blotted with sepia a ...
— Applied Eugenics • Paul Popenoe and Roswell Hill Johnson

... curious illustration of how weeds are carried from one end of the earth to the other, Sir Joseph Hooker relates this circumstance: "On one occasion," he says, "landing on a small uninhabited island nearly at the Antipodes, the first evidence I met with of its having been previously visited by man was the English chickweed; ...
— The Writings of John Burroughs • John Burroughs



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