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Philip Schuyler
Philip John Schuyler (1733–1804), Albany-born Dutch-aristocrat general, one of four original Continental major generals and Northern Department commander, blamed for Fort Ticonderoga's loss, replaced by Gates in 1777, later U.S. senator and canal advocate.
Robert E. Lee
Robert E. Lee (1807-1870), US Army engineer and Confederate commander of the Army of Northern Virginia; resigned April 1861, surrendered at Appomattox April 9, 1865, later president of Washington College.
Sam Houston
Sam Houston (1793–1863), American soldier and statesman, hero of the Battle of San Jacinto, first and third president of the Republic of Texas, US senator, and the only governor of two states, Tennessee and Texas.
Sterling Price
Sterling Price (1809–1867), Missouri governor 1853–1857 and major general of the Missouri State Guard and Confederate Army, won Wilson's Creek and Lexington in 1861, lost Pea Ridge, Iuka, Corinth, and the 1864 Missouri raid at Westport, then exiled to Mexico rather than surrender.
Stonewall Jackson
Stonewall Jackson, Thomas Jonathan Jackson (1824–1863), Confederate lieutenant general commanding the Second Corps, Army of Northern Virginia. Nicknamed at First Manassas, famed for the 1862 Valley Campaign and Harpers Ferry, mortally wounded by friendly fire at Chancellorsville.
William B. Travis
William Barret Travis (1809-1836) was the lieutenant colonel commanding the Alamo garrison during the 1836 siege, known for the Anahuac Disturbances and the "Victory or Death" letter; not to be confused with other Travis namesakes.
William S. Harney
William Selby Harney (1800–1889), 'Mad Bear,' was a U.S. Army general of the Seminole, Mexican-American, and Plains Indian wars, the Pig War commander, and Department of the West chief relieved in 1861.
Zachary Taylor
Zachary Taylor (1784–1850), 12th U.S. president and Whig general nicknamed Old Rough and Ready; Mexican-American War hero of Buena Vista, slaveholder opposing slavery's expansion, died in office July 1850.
Zebulon Pike
Zebulon Montgomery Pike (1779–1813), American army officer and explorer of the Louisiana Territory's Mississippi and Southwest routes, namesake of Pikes Peak, captured by Spain in 1807, killed at the Battle of York in 1813.