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Highly detailed saleman's sample label with three-quarter portrait in fancy gilt and silvered frame of Civil War Major General Joseph Hooker flanked by two pairs of American flags. 6x8¼, chromolithographed on coated stock.

Union Army officer "Fighting Joe" Hooker is perhaps best known for his surprising defeat by General Robert E. Lee and a smaller Confederate army at the Battle of Chancellorsville in 1863. He is also remembered for his less than sterling conduct as an officer which included much drinking and carousing.