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Joseph Hooker
Joseph Hooker (1814–1879) was a Union general and commander of the Army of the Potomac during the Civil War. Hooker was appointed a brigadier general after the First Battle of Bull Run and took part in the major eastern campaigns of 1862. After the Union defeat at Fredericksburg, Lincoln appointed Hooker commander of the Army of the Potomac to replace General Ambrose Burnside. Hooker successfully reorganized the army, but he was an ineffectual commander. He was badly defeated by Confederate General Robert E. Lee at the Battle of...
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Thomas Jonathan Jackson
Thomas Jonathan “Stonewall” Jackson (1824–1863) was a celebrated Confederate general in the American Civil War. Born in Virginia, Jackson graduated from West Point and served in the Mexican-American War. He resigned his commission in 1851 to take a position as a professor at the Virginia Military Institute. When Virginia seceded in 1861, Jackson remained loyal to the state and was commissioned as a Confederate colonel. He was soon promoted to brigadier general and took part in the First Battle of Bull Run. There, his...