[mainepatsfan]

Northern public plunged to rock bottom in the early months of 1863 ...

Thank you Joe Hooker.

[XRdsRev]

The morale problem in the Army of the Potomac in early 1863 didn't have a whole lot to do with Hooker. It was more a result of the disaster at Fredericksburg followed closely by the fiasco of the "Mud March".

[James Ewell Brown Stuart]

No, thank you Stonewall Jackson.