Hooker had a fondness for prostitutes. One time a soldier asked who a wagon filled with prostitutes belonged to. A officer replied. "They're Hooker's." The name stuck and the rest is history.


"The time for war has not yet come, but it will come and that soon, and when it does come, my advice is to draw the sword and throw away the scabbard." Gen. T.J. Jackson, March 1861