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117 famous people found
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Ellsworth P. BERTHOLF
Congressional Gold Medal recipient who later served as the fourth Captain-Commandant of the United States Revenue Cutter Service
1866 - 1921 -
Joseph STILLWELL
United States Army four-star General known for service in the China Burma India Theater
1883 - 1946 -
Robert Powell Page WAINWRIGHT
U.S. Army officer and West Point graduate
1852 - 1902 -
Jonathan M. WAINWRIGHT
Career American army officer and the commander of Allied forces in the Philippines at the time of their surrender to the Empire of Japan during World War II
1883 - 1953 -
Stonewall JACKSON
Confederate general during the American Civil War, and one of the best-known Confederate commanders after General Robert E. Lee
1824 - 1863 -
Montgomery C. MEIGS
United States Army officer, civil engineer, construction engineer for a number of facilities in Washington, D.C., and Quartermaster General of the U.S. Army during and after the American Civil War
1816 - 1892 -
George CADWALADER
General in the United States Army during the Mexican-American War and American Civil War
1806 - 1879 -
William Wallace Smith BLISS
United States Army officer and mathematics professor
1815 - 1853 -
Doc HOLLIDAY
American gambler, gunfighter, and dentist of the American Old West who is usually remembered for his friendship with Wyatt Earp and his involvement in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
1851 - 1887 -
John S. PRESTON
American wealthy planter, soldier, and attorney who became prominent in South Carolina politics
1809 - 1881 -
Samuel Ryan CURTIS
American military officer, and one of the first Republicans elected to Congress
1805 - 1866 -
Armistead Lindsay LONG
Brigadier general for the Confederate States of America, and the author of the 1886 book Memoirs of Robert E. Lee
1825 - 1891 -
Edwin Vose SUMNER
United States Army officer
1797 - 1863 -
John Jordan CRITTENDEN
American officer in the United States Army
1854 - 1876 -
Thomas Leonidas CRITTENDEN
American lawyer, politician, and Union general during the American Civil War
1819 - 1893 -
George B. CRITTENDEN
United States Army officer who served in the Black Hawk War, the Army of the Republic of Texas, and the Mexican-American War, and was a general in the Confederate States Army in the American Civil War
1812 - 1880 -
Elisha F. PAXTON
American lawyer and soldier who served as a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War
1828 - 1863 -
John B. FLOYD
31st Governor of Virginia, U.S. Secretary of War, and the Confederate general in the American Civil War who lost the crucial Battle of Fort Donelson
1806 - 1863 -
Alfred GIBBS
Career officer in the United States Army (Regular Army) who served as a brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War
1823 - 1868 -
Rufus KING
Newspaper editor, educator, U.S. diplomat, and a Union brigadier general in the American Civil War
1814 - 1876