Joe Hooker; Gifted Soldier, Flawed Commander, Sharp-Tongued Critic (Part 3)
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Major Gen. Joseph Hooker is well-remembered for his generalship at the battles of Chancellorsville and Lookout Mountain—and his outspoken nature, attacking peers and superiors with reckless abandon. Gamaliel Bradford, a pioneer of psychological studies, explored Hooker in a 1914 article in The Atlantic magazine. Here what he found (part 3 of 3)
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