http://www.cmohs.org/recipient-detail/641/hooker-george-w.php

Citation

Rode alone, in advance of his regiment, into the enemy's lines, and before his own men came up received the surrender of the major of a Confederate regiment, together with the colors and 116 men.

Obituary: http://vermontcivilwar.org/museum/moh/bios.php?input=3069

He was the brother-in-law of financier James Fisk Jr, (his wife's family) and is buried in the Fisk family plot.

http://antietam.aotw.org/officers.php?officer_id=983

1880 US Census https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/M8WJ-7XP

http://www.archive.org/stream/annalsofbrattleb00cabo/annalsofbrattleb00cabo_djvu.txt