American Civil War, Mexican-American War, War of 1812

142 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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  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
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  John Gill LEMMON

  American botanist and Civil War veteran and former prisoner of Andersonville

  1832 - 1908
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  John Jacob ASTOR IV

  American businessman, real estate builder, investor, inventor, writer, lieutenant colonel in the Spanish-American War, and a prominent member of the Astor family

  1864 - 1912