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Hooker planned an audacious campaign against Robert E. Lee, but he was defeated by the Confederate Army at the [[Battle of Chancellorsville]]. Hooker suddenly lacked the nerve to marshal the strength of his larger army against Lee, who boldly divided his army and routed a Union corps with a flank attack by [[Stonewall Jackson]]. Hooker began to pursue Lee at the start of the [[Gettysburg Campaign]], but his poor performance at Chancellorsville prompted Abraham Lincoln to relieve him from command just prior to the [[Battle of Gettysburg]]. He returned to combat in November, leading two corps from the Army of the Potomac to help relieve the besieged Union Army at [[Chattanooga, Tennessee]], and achieving an important victory at the [[Battle of Lookout Mountain]] during the [[Chattanooga Campaign]]. He continued in the [[Western Theater of the American Civil War|Western Theater]] under Maj. Gen. [[William T. Sherman]], but left before the end of the [[Atlanta Campaign]] when he was bypassed for a promotion to command the [[Army of the Tennessee]].
Hooker became known as "Fighting Joe" following a journalist's clerical error reporting from the Battle of Williamsburg; however, the nickname stuck. His personal reputation was as a hard-drinking ladies' man, and his headquarters was known for parties and gambling, although the historical evidence discounts any heavy drinking by the general himself. His name is often associated with the slang term for prostitute, although the word "hooker" has been documented
==Early years==
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