He was Jack the Ripper. Why do you think working women are called Hookers?
Almost drowned off the Sonoma coast. If Orwell died from his neck wounds(Spanish civil war) he would not have written 1984.
Life-on-the-edgers do great things.
At Chancellorsville, the Union was winning pretty handily, until Hooker lost his nerve. For some inexplicable reason, he ordered a messy retreat. When the messenger with the order to retreat arrived at one Union regiment, the colonel who was whipping the Rebs, had him arrested and told him if he was lying he would have him shot. He sent his own orderly to confirm the order. The messenger was spared.