In Memoriam, Major-General Joseph Hooker (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from In Memoriam, Major-General Joseph Hooker

N o memorial tablet can contain an appropriate record of the life, character, and services of major-general joseph hooker. They deserve a volume. Inscriptions suggest rather than narrate. This sketch must be something less than an inscription.

Some men impress themselves on history through deeds ac complished; others, less fortunate, it may be, in their visible achievements, acquire renown by influence among their contempo raries and on posterity. History accepts the soldier to be great who, in campaigns and battles, was the victorious commander. Hooker was the leading spirit in battles where he did not com mand; he was the commander in campaigns history does not yet fully understand and will not accept as victorious.

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