Bounty Land Application File of 1st Lieutenant Joseph Hooker, Assistant Adjutant General of the 1st U.S. Artillery Regiment (50-160-10828)

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Bounty Land Application File of 1st Lieutenant Joseph Hooker, Assistant Adjutant General of the 1st U.S. Artillery Regiment (50-160-10828)

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Hooker, Joseph, 1814-1879

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Hooker was born in Hadley, Massachusetts, the grandson of a captain in the American Revolutionary War. He was of entirely English ancestry, all of which had been in New England since the early 1600s. His initial schooling was at the local Hopkins Academy. He graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1837, ranked 29th out of a class of 50, and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the 1st U.S. Artillery. His initial assignment was in Florida fighting in the second of the Seminole War...