He numbered Richard Hooker among his friends as well as Hooker's biographer Isaak Walton, who wrote of the information he derived from Morton.

In addition, there was an extensive series of books ( bearing Hooker's name but ghostwritten by William E. Butterworth ) in which the characters travel to Moscow, New Orleans, San Francisco, Paris, etc.

While most of Hooker's output is rooted in free jazz, critic Neil Strauss has written, " William Hooker is a man determined to get his music ' out there ', and he'll cross any genre to do it.

Hooker's " blood boiled, I felt myself a dastard ; now I saw my advantage – I swore to myself I would smite that Amalekite Sam hip and thigh ", ( he was invited up to the platform and ) " there and then I smacked him amid rounds of applause ... proceeded to demonstrate ... that he could never have read your book ... wound up with a very few observations on the ... old and new hypotheses ... Sam was shut up ... and the meeting was dissolved forthwith leaving you master of the field after 4 hours battle.

Hooker's ideas were not broadly influential.

Hooker's troops were over 12, 000 strong.

Containing such songs as the proto-punk classics " Kick Out the Jams " and " Rama Lama Fa Fa Fa ", the spaced-out " Starship " ( co-credited to Sun Ra because the lyrics were partly cribbed from one of Ra's poems ), and an extended cover of John Lee Hooker's " Motor City is Burning " wherein Tyner praises the role of Black Panther snipers during the Detroit Insurrection of 1967.

Some versions of the legend claim that the band of prostitutes that followed his division were derisively referred to as " General Hooker's Army " or " Hooker's Brigade.

Hooker's collections from the voyage were described eventually in one of two volumes published as the Flora Antarctica ( 1844 – 47 ).

On October 28, after a rapid march, Hooker's column entered Lookout Valley to the astonishment of Generals Braxton Bragg and James Longstreet, who were having a conference on Lookout Mountain.

Once he reached his goal, " Hooker's dispositions were deplorable ," with Howard's understrength XI Corps " bivouacked haphazardly " at Brown's Ferry.

Though Law's 2, 000 men were greatly outnumbered by Hooker's force, the hilltop position was naturally strong.

The chapters were sent to Hooker for correcting as they were completed, which led to a minor disaster when a large bundle was put by accident into the drawer Hooker's wife used to keep paper for the children to draw on.

Mansfield, assuming that men from Hooker's corps were in the woods, rode down the regimental line crying out, " You are firing on our own men!

Hooker's collections at Kew were threatened with government cuts under Acton Smee Ayrton.

Although credited to Hooker and Butterworth, they are all quite different in tone, have considerable character variations ( e. g., age impossibilities ) from Hooker's own work and were essentially ghostwritten by Butterworth.

In the early morning hours of June 28, 1863, a messenger from President Abraham Lincoln arrived to inform Meade of his appointment as Hooker's replacement.

In the spring of 1863, Lincoln was optimistic about upcoming campaigns to the point of thinking the end of the war could be near if a string of victories could be put together ; these plans included Hooker's attack on Lee north of Richmond, Rosecrans ' on Chattanooga, Grant's on Vicksburg, and a naval assault on Charleston.

Hooker's initial plan was to seize Richmond instead, but Lincoln immediately vetoed that idea, so the Army of the Potomac began to march north, attempting to locate Lee's Army of Northern Virginia as it slipped down the Shenandoah Valley into Pennsylvania.

Through an ingenious plan by Maj. Gen. William F. Smith, a " Cracker Line " was formed with Hooker's Army of the Potomac located at Lookout Mountain and supplied the Army of the Cumberland with food and military weapons.

On May 1, Hooker advanced from Chancellorsville toward Lee, but the Confederate general split his army in the face of superior numbers, leaving a small force at Fredericksburg to deter Maj. Gen. John Sedgwick from advancing, while he attacked Hooker's advance with about 4 / 5ths of his army.

As Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia moved north into Maryland, Hooker's corps ( redesignated the I Corps on September 12 ) was returned to the Army of the Potomac, and he fought with distinction at South Mountain and Antietam.

Burnside followed up this battle with the humiliating Mud March in January and Hooker's criticism of his commander bordered on formal insubordination.

Lee audaciously split his smaller army in two to deal with both parts of Hooker's army.

Part of Hooker's failure can be attributed to a deadly encounter with a cannonball.

After Gettysburg, Butterfield actively undermined Meade, in cooperation with Maj. Gen. Daniel Sickles, another crony of Hooker's.

After receiving assurances from Sherman that he could proceed with three divisions, Grant decided to revive the previously rejected plan for an attack on Lookout Mountain and reassigned Osterhaus to Hooker's command.

Gray and Hooker's research was reported in their joint 1882 publication, " The Vegetation of the Rocky Mountain Region and a Comparison with that of Other Parts of the World ," which appeared in volume six of Hayden's Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geophysical Survey of the Territories.

At the colonial office he had great influence in furthering the cause of natural science, particularly in connection with equipment of the Palliser Expedition in Canada ( for his efforts, the Ball Range in the Canadian Rockies was named after him ), and with William Jackson Hooker's efforts to obtain a systematic knowledge of the colonial floras.

In 1899, John Mast of Lititz, Pennsylvania, filed a U. S. patent for a modification of Hooker's design that can be " readily set or adjusted with absolute safety to the person attending thereto, avoiding the liability of having his fingers caught or injured by the striker when it is prematurely or accidentally freed or released.

Hooker's tough, no-nonsense demeanor saw him often clashing with station Captain Sheridan ( Richard Herd ), but he always got the job done and was highly respected as a result.

Hooker's work concerned the form of Protestant church government as an argument against the extreme advocates of Puritanism, arguing that elements of Church of England practice condemned by the Puritans, in particular the Book of Common Prayer and the institution of bishops, are proper and accord with Scripture.

Thomas launched a surprise amphibious landing at Brown's Ferry on October 27 that opened the Tennessee River by linking up his Army of the Cumberland with Hooker's relief column southwest of the city, thus allowing supplies and reinforcements to flow into Chattanooga over what was called the " Cracker Line ".

Early's division to hold Fredericksburg on May 1, while he marched west with the rest of the Army of Northern Virginia to deal with Union Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker's main thrust at Chancellorsville with four corps of the Army of the Potomac.

Gen. John Gibbon, crossed the Rappahannock River to try and reunite with the rest of Hooker's army.

After occupying Marye's Heights on May 3 following the Second Battle of Fredericksburg, Maj. Gen. John Sedgwick's VI Corps of about 25, 000 men marched out on the Plank Road with the objective of reaching his superior Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker's force at Chancellorsville.

Soon afterward, on Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker's appointment to command the army, Sumner was relieved at his own request, apparently disillusioned with the quarreling in the army and also thoroughly exhausted.

This reduced Hooker's role in the company, and after an emotional falling-out with Hives, he left.

Longstreet, obsessed with the possibility of a Union attack further to the southwest, had failed to properly scout Hooker's advance.

On April 4, 1864, just before the onset of the Atlanta Campaign, William T. Sherman, authorized the consolidation of XI and XII Corps as XX Corps, under Hooker's command, to serve in the Army of the Cumberland.

At first they stayed in the King's Hotel, Shanklin, and on 30 July Darwin began writing an " abstract " of his book on Natural Selection, planning a short paper in response to Hooker's urging to publish a scientific paper in the Linnean journal.