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JOSEPH HOOKER. Manuscript DS: "Joseph Hooker" as Major
General Commanding, 20th Corps,
2½p, 22x17, separate sheets. "Monthly Report of Officers to whom
Public Moneys or Military Supplies have been Transferred during the month of
June 1864, by Officers of 20th Army Corps in the Department
of the Cumberland." The document's focus is on 90 men described by eight
columns: "No.", "Officers' Names", "Rank and Corps.", "By Whom Transferred",
"When Transferred", "Property", (all of which is referenced to "Quarter Master
Stores"), "Money", and "Remarks". The "Money" and "Remarks" columns are empty.
On May 25, 1864, in the Atlanta campaign, the 20th Corps under General Hooker
attacked Confederate General John Bell Hood's Corps but were turned back after
two hours by murderous fire from 16 cannons and 5,000 muskets at short range.
Hooker believed that he was being denied authority by rival Generals, so he
resigned his command just a month after this document, on July 28, 1864. Hooker
was called "Fighting Joe" by the press as a result of an 1862 incident in which
his horse was shot from under him and, after falling in the mud, he continued to
lead his troops. In September, 1862, he was wounded at Antietam. Hooker
succeeded Burnside as commander of the Army of the Potomac on January 26, 1863.
After failing to defeat Lee at Chancellorsville, he resigned his command on June
28, 1863. Hooker continued to fight in other campaigns, including the siege of
Atlanta. After he resigned from his post in 1864, Hooker never saw field duty
again; he served out the war in administrative posts. Minor nicks at folds,
slight surface creases, four small filing holes at top blank margin, else fine.
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