America's Civil War

BREVET BRIGADIER GENERAL Ambrose E. Hooker

had the body of her late husband, Ambrose E. Hooker, exhumed and an autopsy performed following his unexplained sudden death. The widow suspected foul play and presumed he had been poisoned by his brother, but she may well have had an ulterior motive, as litigation against her brother-in-law over a herd of

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