...s at his lips, and a song behind it. He would lead a march with his banjo-player thrumming at his side. As he rode down the lines at Chancellorsville, the commander of an army, and the successor of Stonewall Jackson , whose fall had torn the hearts of his soldiers, he sang in a rollicking way: Old Joe Hooker, come out of the Wilderness. As a soldier he was a born leader. He demonstrated his ability to direct ...