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Even though Joseph Hooker was a competent general in the Union Army, he is now remembered for two things—his defeat at the Battle of Chancellorsville and his name becoming synonymous with prostitution. Hooker had a reputation as a drunk and a womanizer. His soldiers were undisciplined and followed his lead. Consequently, his Union camps were so often stocked with prostitutes that they became known as “Hooker’s Brigade,” later simply referred to as “hookers.”Although it sounds like a convincing story, the word “hooker” referred to a prostitute before the Civil War. The earliest known instance was in a police report from 1835. The woman was called a hooker because she “hanged around the hook,” referring to Corlear’s Hook, an area of New York rife with prostitution. Whether or not the general had anything to do with the origins of the term, he certainly popularized it. Hooker’s men frequented one area in the slums of Murder Bay, a neighborhood in Washington, DC, that became known as “Hooker’s Division” because it mostly housed prostitutes.