Class Year
2018
Document Type
Blog Post
Publication Date
3-28-2016
Department 1
Civil War Institute
Abstract
It was to my slight disappointment that I found out that the term "hooker," one of many referring to prostitutes (or, as they were called during the Civil War era, "public women), is not actually a play on the name of Joseph Hooker, the infamous and promiscuous Union general. Fighting Joe may, however, have helped elevate the term to its current popularity; after all, a certain red light district in Washington, D.C. was dubbed "Hooker’s Division." [excerpt]
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Recommended Citation
Jensen, Anika N., "Prostitution and the Civil War" (2016). The Gettysburg Compiler: On the Front Lines of History. 148.
https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/compiler/148
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