In 1862 He commanded the 2nd Division of the III Corps in Peninsula Campaign.
As new Commander of the Army of the Potomac he immediately began to reorganize the Army.
The staff was rearranged, the soldiers had paid the arrears pays and was created an effective system of permits and furloughs that reduced arbitrary absences, discipline was improved and strengthened and the control was made more efficient; the Group of Army Corps, or "grand divisions" created by General Burnside were dissolved; each Corps had a particularly distinctive, which, besides facilitating the recognition of the soldiers, developed their spirit of emulation; the cavalry was assembled in an army Corps that allowed them to be employed in mass, as done by Confederates.
In 1862 He commanded the 2nd Division of the III Corps in Peninsula Campaign.
It was to organize the army differently.
Organize the army different.
Major General Joseph Hooker
Major General Joseph "Fighting Joe" Hooker succeeded General Burnside as the commander of the Army of the Potomac. Hooker was the third general Lincoln had as the leader of the North's premier army.
US President Lincoln replaced General Hooker with General George Meade as commander of the Army of the Potomac. He won the Battle of Gettysburg.
General George G. Meade
General George G. Meade
Joseph Hooker was an Union Army General.
Joseph Hooker
This would be Major General Joseph "fighting Joe" Hooker. He succeeded Burnside as the new commander of the Army of the Potomac. Hooker would not be the last general that Lincoln appointed to this post.
General Robert E. Lee was the commander of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia. The Federal Amy of the Potomac was led by Major General Joseph Hooker.
General Meade became Commander of Union Army of the Potomac after its former commander Gen. Joseph Hooker's dismissal of June 28, 1863.
Joseph Hooker