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Col. Charles E. Hooker, of Jackson, Miss., author of the military
history of that State, entered the Confederate service in 1861 as a
volunteer in the First Mississippi regular artillery, and was
captain of his company during the siege of Vicksburg, when he lost
his left arm. He was surrendered with the army under General
Pemberton, and upon being exchanged was promoted to colonel and
assigned to duty as a member of the military court for the army of
Mississippi. He was leading counsel in the defense of President
Jefferson Davis during the trial at Richmond: was selected as the
orator for the reunion of the United Confederate veterans at
Atlanta, July, 1898, and as a citizen of Mississippi since the war
has had honorable prominence as attorney-general for two terms, and
member of Congress for sixteen years.
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