George Meade
Lincoln replaced General Hooker with GeneralGeorgeMeade because when Hooker failed to win in the battle of Chancellorsville, Lincoln lost faith in Hooker, and had to replace him with General Meade. The union had many bad leaders. Although, Lincoln chooses Hooker as a General again later in the battles.Good luck, :) Bye.
General George G. Meade
General George G. Meade
Both US president Lincoln and General in Chief Henry Wager Halleck were displeased with general Joseph hooker. They believed that Hooker's response to Lee's crossing of the Potomac River was late and unresponsive to the needs of the Union. This required a change and Halleck's choice of General Meade to replace Hooker was in line with President Lincoln's views on the matter.
General "Fighting Joe" Hooker had failed at the Battle of Chancellorsville, despite a huge troop advantage. President Lincoln decided to replace him with Major General George Meade as Confederates began to cross the Potomac River in 1863.
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.
To replace Burnside with Hooker.
President Lincoln wanted General Hooker's engagement with Lee's raiding army to be a success. He did that by calling on the states to raise 100,000 militias.
George Gordon Meade - who won the Battle of Gettysburg just days later.
As head of the Army of the Potomac, General Hooker had a substantial troop advantage at the Battle of Chancellorsville. Yet, he lost this battle to Robert E. Lee. US President Lincoln then appointed General Meade to replace Hooker. Chancellorsville was perhaps the best victory of Robert E. Lee and his Army of Northern Virginia.
In late June of 1863, President Lincoln became dissatisfied with General Hooker's plans to challenge General Robert E. Lee's advance into Pennsylvania. He relieved Hooker and took the advice of General in Chief Halleck's advice to replace Hooker with Major General George G. Meade. Meade had been a corps commander with the Army of the Potomac.
A costly defeat of the newly-promoted Union General, Ambrose Burnside, followed by his demoralising 'Mud March', which caused Lincoln to replace him with Joe Hooker.