American Civil War, Mexican-American War, War of 1812
172 famous people found
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George Washington Custis LEE
Confederate general in the American Civil War, president of Washington and Lee University
1832 - 1913
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George Armstrong CUSTER
United States Army officer and cavalry commander in the American Civil War and the Indian Wars
1839 - 1876
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Ambrose BURNSIDE
American soldier, railroad executive, inventor, industrialist, and politician from Rhode Island
1824 - 1881
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Lewis POWELL
American Confederate soldier who attempted to assassinate William Henry Seward as part of the Lincoln assassination plot
1844 - 1865
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John Brown GORDON
American attorney, planter, and general in the Confederate States Army
1832 - 1904
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John A. LOGAN
American soldier and political leader
1826 - 1886
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George B. MCCLELLAN
Major general during the American Civil War and the Democratic presidential nominee in 1864
1826 - 1885
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Nicholas Gilman
American Founding Father
1755 - 1814
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Braxton Bragg
American army officer during the Second Seminole War and Mexican–American War and Confederate army officer who served as a general in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War
1817 - 1876
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Edmund Kirby SMITH
United States Army officer who fought in the Mexican–American War, president of the Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Company
1824 - 1893
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James J. ARCHER
Lawyer, officer in the United States Army during the Mexican-American War, Brigadier General in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War
1817 - 1864
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John Charles FREMONT
American military officer, math instructor, explorer, author, U.S. Senator, and politician
1813 - 1890
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David FARRAGUT
Flag officer of the United States Navy during the American Civil War
1801 - 1870
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Camille Armand Jules Marie DE POLIGNAC
French soldier
1832 - 1913
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John ADAIR
American pioneer, soldier, and politician, he was the eighth Governor of Kentucky
1757 - 1840
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Martin Davis HARDIN
Brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War
1837 - 1923
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Mary Edwards WALKER
American feminist, abolitionist, prohibitionist, alleged spy, prisoner of war and surgeon
1832 - 1919
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Zebulon PIKE
American brigadier general and explorer for whom Pikes Peak in Colorado is named
1779 - 1813
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Sylvanus THAYER
Also known as "the Father of West Point", he was an early superintendent of the United States Military Academy at West Point
1785 - 1872
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Friedrich Wilhelm VON STEUBEN
Prussian-born military officer who served as inspector general and Major General of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War
1730 - 1794