Joseph Hooker

The lifetime paratrooper who explained Buford's tactics to me with clinical expertise tears up at the Antietam "Cornfield," where Joseph Hooker's men marched through rows of ripe corn in the mist of a September sunrise and were scythed down just as neatly.

Refighting the Battle of Gettysburg Thomas Donnelly 2011

General Joseph Hooker's famous quote involving ripe corn following the morning's fighting in the cornfield at Antietam.

It Was a Bloody and Dismal Battlefield 2011

Before he succeeded his father as Kew's director, the young Joseph Hooker wrote from the Himalayas in November 1849 that he and his companion had been "seized, guarded and interrogated with intimidation".

Kew Gardens: 'Plants are not just beautiful. They help us to survive' 2010

Gen. Joseph Hooker, a grand division commander for the Union Army, was observed by a New York Times reporter saying in January 1863 that "nothing would go right until we had a dictator, and the sooner the better."

Who's in Charge? 2010

Grant: He had to fire Ambrose Burnside, get rid of Joseph Hooker, and marginalize George Meade.

Lincoln's Lessons for a New President 2009

The gardens 'famed 19th-century director Joseph Hooker (1817-1911) made a journey to India, where he catalogued the subcontinent's plant life in a major work, "Flora Indica," which is still a standard reference book on the subject.

At British Museum, Kew's Gardeners Conjure Up India 2009

During the Civil War, for example, a much-smaller Washington and its adjoining suburbs hosted between 7,500 and 15,000 prostitutes, with the heaviest concentrations near the Army encampment of Gen. Joseph Hooker between Congress and the White House.

Andrew Kreig: Probe the Past To Protect the Future 2009

In a letter of 1863 to his friend the botanist Joseph Hooker, he said, ‘But I have long regretted that I truckled to public opinion, and used the Pentateuchal term of creation, by which I really meant “appeared” by some wholly unknown process.’

THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

In a letter of 1863 to his friend the botanist Joseph Hooker, he said, ‘But I have long regretted that I truckled to public opinion, and used the Pentateuchal term of creation, by which I really meant “appeared” by some wholly unknown process.’

THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

Along with English botanist Joseph Hooker, Lyell was one of a small handful of people Darwin had shown early drafts of his own work on natural selection.

150th Anniversary of Theory of Evolution 2008