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David Hackworth
David Haskell Hackworth (1930-2005), U.S. Army colonel and one of America's most decorated soldiers of Korea and Vietnam, who denounced the war on TV in 1971, wrote About Face, and became a military journalist.
David Petraeus
David Petraeus, full name David Howell Petraeus, is a retired United States Army general who commanded the 2007 Iraq surge and led the CIA from 2011 to 2012.
Douglas MacArthur
Douglas MacArthur (1880–1964), American five-star General of the Army, led Southwest Pacific forces in WWII, governed occupied Japan 1945–1951, commanded UN forces in Korea, and was relieved by President Truman in April 1951.
Douglas Macgregor
Douglas Macgregor, retired U.S. Army colonel, led 2nd ACR's Cougar Squadron at the 1991 Battle of 73 Easting and wrote the Army reform book Breaking the Phalanx (1997); later a Pentagon adviser under Trump and Ukraine war commentator.
Edward Shames
Edward Shames was an American Army officer of Easy Company, 101st Airborne, who jumped into Normandy on D-Day and was the last surviving Band of Brothers officer.
Edwin Walker
Edwin Walker, also known as General Edwin Walker, was a United States Army major general from Texas who enforced school desegregation at Little Rock in 1957.
Elwell Stephen Otis
Elwell Stephen Otis (1838–1909), American major general and lawyer, Harvard LL.B. and 140th New York Infantry veteran, was military governor of the Philippines August 1898–May 1900, issuing the 'benevolent assimilation' proclamation.
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.
Eric Shinseki
Eric K. Shinseki (born 1942, Kauai, Hawaii): retired four-star general, 34th U.S. Army Chief of Staff (1999-2003) and Army Transformation leader, later 7th Secretary of Veterans Affairs (2009-2014), famous for his 2003 Iraq troop estimate and 2014 VA resignation.
Ernest Medina
Ernest Medina, US Army captain, commanded Charlie Company, 1/20th Infantry, at the 1968 My Lai massacre, Son My village, Quang Ngai. Charged with murder March 1970; acquitted of all charges, including command responsibility, at Fort McPherson on 22 September 1971.
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.
Frank Merrill
Frank Dow Merrill (1903–1955), American major general, West Point class of 1929 and Japanese-language officer, commanded the 5307th Composite Unit, Merrill's Marauders, in Burma 1944, capturing Myitkyina airfield before heart trouble ended his field command.
Frank Ross McCoy
Frank Ross McCoy (1874–1954) was a United States Army major general and soldier-diplomat who chaired the Far Eastern Commission overseeing occupied Japan from 1945 to 1949.
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 C. Marshall
George Catlett Marshall Jr. (1880–1959), American General of the Army and statesman; not to be confused with Chief Justice John Marshall. Chief of Staff 1939–45, Secretary of State 1947–49, Secretary of Defense 1950–51, architect of the Marshall Plan and 1953 Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
George Crook
George Crook (1828–1890), Union general and U.S. Army commander in the Indian Wars: Paiute, Apache, and Great Sioux War campaigns, Battle of the Rosebud, and later advocacy of Native American rights.
George Patton IV
George Smith Patton IV (1923-2004), also George S. Patton IV, U.S. Army major general, son of WWII general George S. Patton Jr.; West Point 1946, Korea and Vietnam veteran, two Distinguished Service Crosses, commanded the 11th Armored Cavalry and 2nd Armored Division.
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 S. Patton
George S. Patton (1885–1945), US Army general, led the Third Army across Europe in World War II after commanding in North Africa and Sicily; also a 1912 Olympic modern pentathlete.
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.
Gregory D. Gadson
Gregory D. Gadson, born 1966, retired U.S. Army colonel and West Point football player who lost both legs to a 2007 Iraq IED, stayed on duty, commanded Fort Belvoir, inspired the 2007 Giants' Super Bowl win, and starred in Battleship.
H. R. McMaster
H.R. McMaster (Herbert Raymond McMaster), retired US Army lieutenant general and military historian; Gulf War Battle of 73 Easting Silver Star recipient, Tal Afar counterinsurgency commander, author of Dereliction of Duty, and Trump's national security adviser 2017–2018.
Hal Moore
Hal Moore (1922–2017), U.S. Army lieutenant general, commanded the 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry at the Battle of Ia Drang (1965), earned the Distinguished Service Cross, and co-authored We Were Soldiers Once...and Young.
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.
Hugh Aloysius Drum
Hugh Aloysius Drum (1879–1951), U.S. Army lieutenant general: youngest officer of his era via McKinley commission, First Army chief of staff in World War I, Eastern Defense Command head, passed over for Marshall in 1939, and namesake of Fort Drum, New York.
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.