Hooker was Joe, not Thomas.
He was appointed to restore morale in the Army of the Potomac after its humiliating defeat at Fredericksburg and the terrible Mud March.
Hooker looked as though he would be successful, but lost his nerve at his first battle as army commander (Chancellorsville).
Being well-connected in Washington, he was not fired immediately, but a few weeks later, he was replaced by George Meade, just before the Battle of Gettysburg.
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joseph hooker was on the union side of the civil war .
Major General Joseph Hooker and also Lieutenant-General Joseph Wheeler.Joe Hooker.It happened by mistake - there was a section in some document headed 'Fighting', followed by 'Joe Hooker', but the name stuck.Curiously, it was not viewed as a compliment. It was taken to indicate unseemly brawling, and Hooker did not appreciate it.
From " From "Homes of the Massachusetts Ancestors of General Joseph Hooker" By Isaac Paul Gragg - 1900 It is a most interesting fact that the direct ancestors of General Hooker, for five generations back to the probable emigrant ancestor to these shores, were all named Joseph Hooker, and more singular still, that among all the other Hooker families of New England, as far as research has developed, there has not been another Hooker by the name of Joseph, so that the name for the present, ceases with the General, he leaving no descendants.
Joseph Hooker was an Union Army General.
Yes, Joseph Hooker was married to Jennifer Watson Lee.