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Alexander Hamilton Jr.
Alexander Hamilton Jr. (1786-1875), second son of Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Schuyler, was a Columbia-educated lawyer, War of 1812 captain, Florida district attorney, and Eliza Jumel's divorce lawyer against Aaron Burr.
Anthony Wayne
Anthony Wayne (1745–1796), 'Mad Anthony,' Continental Army general of the American Revolution and commander of the Legion of the United States; won the Battle of Fallen Timbers (1794) and secured the Treaty of Greenville.
Benedict Arnold
Benedict Arnold (1741-1801), American Revolutionary major general and hero of Ticonderoga, Valcour Island, and Saratoga, defected to the British in 1780 in the failed West Point plot, becoming America's synonym for traitor.
Benjamin Butler
Benjamin Franklin Butler (1818–1893), Union major general, Massachusetts politician, and "Contraband Decision" author at Fort Monroe; military governor of New Orleans (General Order No. 28), Johnson impeachment manager, and 1884 Greenback presidential candidate.
Benjamin Cleveland
Benjamin Cleveland (1738–1806), also spelled Cleaveland, was a Patriot militia colonel of Wilkes County, North Carolina, a Whig leader at Kings Mountain, and a harsh suppressor of Loyalists who later moved to South Carolina.
Benjamin Grierson
Benjamin Henry Grierson was a Union Civil War general whose 1863 cavalry raid through Mississippi aided Grant's Vicksburg campaign; he later commanded the Buffalo Soldiers.
Benjamin McCulloch
Benjamin McCulloch (1811–1862), "Ol' Ben," Texas Ranger, San Jacinto veteran, Zachary Taylor's chief of scouts, U.S. marshal, and Confederate brigadier general killed at Pea Ridge on March 7, 1862.
Charles Lee (general)
Charles Lee (1731/1732-1782), British-born soldier of fortune and Continental Army major general, second in command under Washington; captured in 1776, disgraced by the Monmouth court-martial of 1778, dismissed in 1780.
Daniel Morgan
Daniel Morgan (c. 1735/1736–1802) was an American Revolutionary War general, rifle corps commander at Saratoga, and victor over Banastre Tarleton at Cowpens (1781) using three-line defense in depth; not the murdered journalist or the historian.
Emory Upton
Emory Upton (1839–1881), Union brevet major general and Army reformer, wrote the 1867 infantry tactics, The Armies of Asia and Europe (1878), and the posthumous Military Policy (1904) that shaped the Root Reforms.
Francis Preston Blair Jr.
Francis Preston Blair Jr. (Frank Blair, 1821–1875), Missouri congressman, Union major general who helped keep Missouri in the Union, 1868 Democratic vice-presidential nominee, and U.S. senator 1871–1873.
George B. McClellan
George B. McClellan (1826–1885), Union general-in-chief and organizer of the Army of the Potomac, led the failed Peninsula Campaign and the Battle of Antietam, ran against Lincoln in 1864, and later served as governor of New Jersey.
George Rogers Clark
George Rogers Clark (1752–1818), Virginia surveyor and Revolutionary War militia officer, led the 1778–1779 Illinois Campaign, capturing Kaskaskia, Cahokia, and Fort Sackville at Vincennes and securing US claims north of the Ohio River.
George Stoneman
George Stoneman (1822–1894), Union major general and California governor, led the 1863 Chancellorsville cavalry raid and the 1865 Carolina raid, was captured near Macon in 1864, and governed Virginia and California.
George Washington Custis Lee
George Washington Custis Lee (1832-1913), eldest son of Robert E. Lee, Confederate staff officer under Jefferson Davis captured at Sailor's Creek, VMI engineering professor, and president of Washington and Lee University 1871-1897 who recovered Arlington.
George Washington in the American Revolution
George Washington in the American Revolution: his 1775-1783 service as Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army, from the Siege of Boston and Trenton through Valley Forge to the French-allied victory at Yorktown and his December 1783 resignation.
Gideon Johnson Pillow
Gideon Johnson Pillow (1806–1878), Tennessee lawyer and planter, brigadier general under Polk in the Mexican-American War and Confederate general best known for escaping the surrender of Fort Donelson in 1862.
Henry Knox
Henry Knox (1750–1806), Boston bookseller turned Continental Army chief of artillery, hauled 60 tons of cannon from Fort Ticonderoga to break the Siege of Boston, and served as the first U.S. secretary of war, 1789–1794.
Horatio Gates
Horatio Gates (1727–1806), British-born Continental Army major general, accepted Burgoyne's surrender at Saratoga in 1777, led the Board of War during the Conway Cabal, and was routed at Camden in 1780.
J. E. B. Stuart
J. E. B. Stuart (1833–1864), "Jeb," was the Confederate major general commanding the cavalry corps of the Army of Northern Virginia, famed for the 1862 Ride around McClellan, Chancellorsville, the Brandy Station and Gettysburg controversies, and death at Yellow Tavern.
Jefferson C. Davis
Jefferson Columbus Davis (1828-1879), Union Civil War general and veteran of Fort Sumter, Pea Ridge, and Sherman's campaigns; killed General Bull Nelson in 1862 and abandoned freed slaves at Ebenezer Creek; later commanded Alaska and ended the Modoc War.
John C. Pemberton
John Clifford Pemberton (1814–1881), Philadelphia-born West Pointer and Confederate lieutenant general, commanded the Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana and surrendered Vicksburg to Ulysses S. Grant on July 4, 1863.
John Laurens
John Laurens (1754–1782), American Revolutionary War lieutenant colonel, aide-de-camp to George Washington, advocate of enlisting enslaved men with freedom, envoy to France, killed at the Combahee River; distinct from the Australian politician John Laurens (1821–1894).
John Schofield
John McAllister Schofield (1831–1906), Union general, Medal of Honor recipient at Wilson's Creek, commander of the Army of the Ohio at Franklin and Nashville, Secretary of War 1868–1869, and Commanding General of the U.S. Army 1888–1895.
John Sedgwick
John Sedgwick (1813–1864), Union major general nicknamed "Uncle John," commanded the VI Corps of the Army of the Potomac; killed at Spotsylvania on May 9, 1864, the highest-ranking Union officer to die in the Civil War.
Joseph Taylor (colonel)
Joseph Taylor (1741/42-1815) was Colonel/Commandant of the Granville County, North Carolina militia, 1775-1783, leading it at Moore's Creek Bridge and Guilford Court House; later NC Senator (1781, 1803). Distinct from the Philadelphia politician, Joseph Pannell Taylor, and other same-era namesakes.
Leonidas Polk
Leonidas Polk (1806–1864), Episcopal bishop of Louisiana and Confederate lieutenant general, West Point classmate of Jefferson Davis; led corps at Shiloh, Chickamauga, and the Atlanta campaign; killed at Pine Mountain, Georgia, June 14, 1864.
Lew Wallace
Lewis "Lew" Wallace (1827–1905), Union major general at Fort Donelson, Shiloh, and Monocacy, governor of New Mexico Territory, minister to the Ottoman Empire, and author of Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ.
Nathanael Greene
Nathanael Greene (1742-1786) was a major general of the Continental Army, quartermaster general, and commander of the Southern Department 1780-82, whose Carolinas campaign regained Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina from the British.
Nathaniel Lyon
Nathaniel Lyon (1818–1861), Union brigadier general in the Civil War, seized Camp Jackson in St. Louis, drove Missouri's pro-Confederate governor from Jefferson City, and was the first Union general killed in battle, at Wilson's Creek on August 10, 1861.