Joseph Hooker is something of an enigma among U.S. Civil War generals. He introduced corps badges to the army, held wild parties at his headquarters with ladies who became known as hookers, his brief tenure as commander of the Army of the Potomac, his decisive loss at the 1863 Battle of Chancellorsville, and, later that year in Tennessee, as the victorious leader of an assault at the Battle of Lookout Mountain, also known as the “Battle Above the Clouds.” Brash and outspoken, Hooker boasted he had "the finest army on the planet." Here's the story behind his utterance.
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