Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-11-06
HIS LAST BATTLE.
DEATH OF FIGHTING JOE
HOOKER.

MAJOR General Joseph HOOKER dleu al
Garden City, Long Island, Friday after
noon, from apoplexy. He had been in
his usual health an hour before his
death, and purposed going to New York
on the following day to attend to buSi.
ness matters. He gave large dinner
party at the Garden City Hotel, on the
25th, and seemed to be in the best OF
spirits. He took his accustomed walk
in the park during the afternoon, and
did not complain of feeling i'll until
about o'clock, when he retired to his
own apartments and summoned his valet,
who assisted him to a reclining position
upon couch. After an hour he arose
and busted himself about his rooms un-
til 5 As P. NJ, when his valet, hearing the
General struggling for breath, hastened
to his side and assisted him to lie down
upon the bed, at the same time ringing
the bell for help. The hotel superin-
tendent hurried to the room, but when
he arrived General Hooker was dead.
We append a brief sketch of his life:
Gen. Hooker was born in Hadley,
Mass, in 1918. In 1887 he graduated at
West Point, and served in the Florida
and Mexican wars, and was succeSsively
brevetted as Captain, Major and Lieu
tenant Colonel for gallant and meritori-
Gus conduct in the battles of Monterey
and Chapultepec. He was
absence from 1851 to 1858, when he re-
signed his commission and became a
farmer in California, serving also in
1859 as Superintendent of Military
Roads in Oregon. He re-entered the
service at the beginning of the civil
of volunteers March II, 1861, and was
employed in the neighborhood of Wash
ington till March, 1862, when he was
placed in command of a division of the
Army of the Potomac. He was made
Major General of volunteers May 5th,
and took an active part in McClellan's
peninsular campaign, especially at the
battles of Williamsburg, Fair Oaks,
FraZier's Farm and Malvern Hill, and
in the subsequent campaign at Bristoe
Station, the second battle of Bull Run.
Chantilly, South Mountain and Antie-
tam, where he was wounded. He was
made Brigadier General of the United
States army September goth, and at the
battle of Fredericksburg commanded a
grand division under Burnside. He sue
ceeded Burnside i'll command of the
Army of the Potomac January 26, 1865.
and fought the battle of ChancellOrs-
vile in the beginning of May. On June
9th he resigned his command because
General Halleck would not consent to
the evacuation of Harper's Ferry and
the placing of the 10000 men there un-
DO
ton on Lees rear, who was then in
vading Pennsylvania. He was succeed
ed by General Meade. In September he |
was placed in command of the Twelfth |
and Thirteenth Army Corps, which
were concentrated about Chattanooga.
and took leading part in the series of |
battles fought there in November, COM
in the action on Lookout Noun
,ain, for which he was made Brevet Ma
or-General. Subsequently in command
If the Twentieth Army Corps, styled
,he Army of the Cumberland, he was
prominent in the operations about At
anita. He resigned the command of this
,orps in August, 1864, in consequence of
/ question of rank. In September he
vas placed in command of the Northern
in 1865 of the Department
If the East, and in 1866 of that of the
lakes. He was mustered out of the
yolunteer service September l, 1865, and
N October Is, 1868, was made Brevet
of the United States
Army and retired from the service.
Shortly after the war Gen. Hooker
married sister of Hon. w. S. Groes- :
'eck, of Cincinnati, and settled in New
FORK, where she died about two years
so.