Definition of Fighting Joe Hooker

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

Exact synonyms: Hooker, Joseph Hooker
Generic synonyms: Full General, General

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fighting Joe Hooker

Fiedler
Fiedler's myocarditis
Field
Field's rapid stain
Fielding
Fielding's membrane
Fields
Fiessinger-Leroy-Reiter syndrome
Fife
Fifer
Fifth
Fifth Amendment
Fifth Avenue
Fifth Crusade
Fighting French
Fighting Joe Hooker (current term)
Figueira's syndrome
Fiji
Fiji Hindi
Fiji Islands
Fiji dollar
Fijian
Fijian Hindi
Fijians
Fijis
Fil-
Fil-Am
Filago germanica
Filariicae
Filariidae

Literary usage of Fighting Joe Hooker

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

1. Personal Recollections of Distinguished Generals by William Franklin Gore Shanks (1866)
"... Y. Fighting Joe Hooker. THE name and fame of General Joe Hooker are, as they ought to be, dear to every American, for he is eminently a national man. ..."

2. The Life and Public Services of Winfield Scott Hancock, Major-general, U.S.A. by Frederick Elizur Goodrich, Frederick Octavius Prince (1880)
"Fighting Joe " Hooker in command of the Army of the Potomac.—The Clover Badge.—Hancock again leads his Division across the ..."

3. The Campaign of Chancellorsville: A Strategic and Tactical Study by John Bigelow (1910)
"He was more mortified than gratified at being known both in and out of the army as Fighting Joe Hooker. "It sounds to me like Fighting Fool," he once said. ..."

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