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Heros von Borcke, Memoirs of the Confederate War for Independence, Chapter 20: (search)
Chapter 20: The spring campaign of 1863: camp near Culpepper. fights on the Rappahannock. visit of a Prussian officer. rides in the neighbourhood. Hooker's advance and flank march. night-fight near Tod's Tavern. On our arrival at Culpepper we found it greatly improved in aspect. True, the roads were still nearly impassable; but the country round, under the influence of frequent rains and the mild air of April, had clothed itself in tender verdure, interspersed here and ther our kind friends in the neighbourhood did their best to keep the mess-table of the General and his Staff copiously supplied. In the mean time, after the battle of Fredericksburg, the supreme command had been transferred into the hands of General Hooker, an officer who had gained a high reputation by his gallantry-he was nicknamed by his men Fighting Joe --and the good management of his division, but who eventually proved himself to be utterly incapable of commanding a large army. Great cre
Heros von Borcke, Memoirs of the Confederate War for Independence, Chapter 22: (search)
the hottest fire I heard him, to an old melody, hum the words, Old Joe Hooker get out of the Wilderness. After a raging conflict, protracteral hundreds, the majority of whom perished. In this building General Hooker had fixed his headquarters, and hence he had directed the battly ourselves along the muddy road, leaving everybody behind. General Hooker had done wonders amidst the difficulties of this wild entangledtile batteries; but soon even these parting tokens of farewell from Hooker's great army were discontinued, and, vanishing entirely, it ceased sion of defeats, and all his plans and combinations frustrated, General Hooker had already on the previous day determined to withdraw his trooar circumstances, entirely escaped in vigilance of our pickets. As Hooker was retracing his course back towards his old position near Falmout that time there was every prospect of his speedy recovery. General Hooker, after all his disasters, had the audacity to speak of his oper