- Janis Karpinski
Janis Leigh Karpinski (born May 25, 1953, Rahway, New Jersey) is a United States Army Colonel in the 800th Military Police Brigade. She was demoted from Brigadier General in the aftermath of the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse scandal, for dereliction of duty, making a material misrepresentation to investigators, and failure to obey a lawful order. She was the commander of three large US- and British-led prisons in Iraq in 2003, eight battalions, … - Mark Kimmitt
Mark T. Kimmitt (born 21 June 1954), formerly a Brigadier General in the US Army, is currently serving as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Middle East. Previously, Kimmitt served as Deputy Director for Strategy and Plans for the United States Central Command, and Deputy Director for Operations/Chief Military Spokesman for Coalition Forces in Iraq, and served at NATO's SHAPE headquarters in Belgium. - John Adams
John Adams (July 1, 1825-November 30, 1864), was an officer in the United States Army. With the onset of the American Civil War, he resigned his commission and joined the Confederate States Army, rising to the rank of brigadier general before being killed in action. Adams was born in Nashville, Tennessee, to Irish immigrant parents. He graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1846, ranking 25th in his class. - Joseph E. Johnston
Joseph Eggleston Johnston (February 3, 1807 - March 21, 1891) was a career U.S. Army officer and one of the most senior generals in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. His effectiveness was undercut by tensions with President Jefferson Davis, but he also suffered from a lack of aggressiveness and victory eluded him in every campaign he personally commanded. - Anthony Wayne
Anthony Wayne (January 1, 1745 - December 15, 1796), was a United States Army general and statesman. Wayne adopted a military career at the outset of the American Revolutionary War, where his military exploits and fiery personality quickly earned him a promotion to the rank of brigadier general and the sobriquet of "Mad Anthony." - Franklin Pierce
Franklin Pierce (November 23 1804 - October 8 1869) was an American politician and the fourteenth President of the United States, serving from 1853 to 1857. He is to date the only president from New Hampshire and was the first president born in the nineteenth century. Pierce was a Democrat and a "doughface" (a Northerner with Southern sympathies) who served in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate. - Chuck Yeager
Retired Air Force Brigadier General Charles E. "Chuck" Yeager gained fame as the first man to fly faster than the speed of sound. This historic flight in the rocket powered Bell X-1 aircraft took place on October 14th 1947, at Muroc (now Edwards Air Force Base), California. Muroc field was named after the town of Muroc formed by the Corum (Muroc spelled backwords) brothers in the early 20th century. General Yeager was born Feb. 13, 1923, in Myra, West Virginia. - Yitzhak Rabin
"'"', <font color="white">a</font>(March 1, 1922 – November 4, 1995) was an Israeli politician and general. He was the fifth Prime Minister of Israel with two periods in office, from 1974 until 1977 and from 1992 until his assassination in 1995. In 1994 during his second term Rabin won the Nobel Peace Prize together with Shimon Peres and Yasser Arafat, for their efforts towards peace which culminated in the Oslo Accords. - James Stewart
James Maitland Stewart (May 20, 1908 - July 2, 1997) was an iconic, Academy Award-winning American film and stage actor, best known for his self-effacing screen persona. Over the course of his career, he starred in many films widely considered classics and was nominated for five Oscars, winning one in competition and one life achievement. He also had a noted military career, rising to the rank of Brigadier General in the United States Air Force. - Robert Anderson
Brigadier General Sir Robert Murray McCheyne Anderson KCMG CVO (6 August 1865 – 30 December 1940) was an Australian Army Brigadier General in World War I. - Robert Anderson
Robert Anderson (1741 - 1813) was a brigadier general in the colonial militia and a surveyor. He was a lifelong friend of General Andrew Pickens. Anderson, South Carolina, Anderson County, South Carolina, the ghost town of Andersonville are named for him. - Paul Tibbets
Paul Warfield Tibbets, Jr. (born February 23, 1915) is a retired brigadier general in the United States Air Force and was the pilot of the first aircraft to drop an atomic bomb. - Don Carlos Buell
Don Carlos Buell (March 23, 1818 - November 19, 1898) was a career U.S. Army officer who fought in the Seminole War, the Mexican-American War, and the American Civil War. - John Moore
Brigadier General, John Moore, MD (August 18, 1826 - March 18, 1907) was a leading United States Army physician during the American Civil War who rose to become Surgeon General of the Army in the late 1880s. John Moore was born in Bloomington, Indiana. He attended Indiana State University and graduated in 1845. He had graduated from the Medical College of Ohio in Cincinnati in 1844. - Irvin McDowell
Irvin McDowell (October 15, 1818 - May 10, 1885) was an American military officer, famous for his loss of the first large-scale battle of the American Civil War, the First Battle of Bull Run. McDowell was born in Columbus, Ohio. He initially attended the College de Troyes in France before graduating from the U.S. Military Academy in 1838. One of his classmates at West Point was P.G.T. Beauregard, his future adversary at First Bull Run. - David Fraser
David Fraser is a Brigadier General of the Canadian Forces. He was the commander of "Multi National Brigade for Regional Command South" in Afghanistan's southern provinces in 2006. He took over from US General Karl Eikenberry on February 28, 2006 and served in that capacity until October of the same year. - George Clinton
George Clinton (July 26, 1739 - April 20, 1812) was an American soldier and politician. He was the first (and longest-serving) Governor of New York, and then Vice President of the United States under Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. - Lesley J. McNair
General Lesley James McNair (May 25, 1883 - July 25, 1944) was an American Army officer who served during World War I and World War II. - Stand Watie
Stand Watie (12 December 1806 - 9 September 1871) (also known as Degataga "stand firm" and Isaac S. Watie) was a leader of the Cherokee Nation and a brigadier general of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He commanded the American Indian cavalry made up mostly of Cherokee, Creek and Seminole. - John Sedgwick
John Sedgwick (September 13, 1813 - May 9, 1864) was a teacher, a career military officer, and a Union Army general in the American Civil War, killed by a Confederate sharp-shooter at the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House. - Abner Doubleday
Abner Doubleday (June 26, 1819 - January 26, 1893), was a career U.S. Army officer and Union general in the American Civil War. He fired the first shot in defense of Fort Sumter, the opening battle of the war, and had a pivotal role in the early fighting at the Battle of Gettysburg. Gettysburg was his finest hour, but his relief by Maj. Gen. George G. Meade caused lasting enmity between the two men. - Jimmy Doolittle
General James Harold "Jimmy" Doolittle, Sc.D. USAF (December 14 1896 - September 27 1993) was an American aviation pioneer. Doolittle served with as a general in the United States Army Air Forces during the Second World War, earning the Medal of Honor as the commander of the Doolittle Raid. - John Foster Dulles
John Foster Dulles (February 25, 1888 - May 24, 1959) served as U.S. Secretary of State under President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 to 1959. He was a significant figure in the early Cold War era, advocating an aggressive stance against communism around the world. He advocated support of the French in their war against the Viet Minh in Indochina and famously refused to shake the hand of Zhou Enlai at the Geneva Conference in 1954. - Robin Olds
Robin Olds was an American fighter pilot and general officer in the U.S. Air Force. He was a "triple ace", with a combined total of 16 victories in World War II and the Vietnam War. He retired in 1973 as a brigadier general. Born into a regular Army family, educated at West Point, and the product of an upbringing in the early years of the U.S. Army Air Corps, Olds epitomized the youthful World War II fighter pilot. - Rufus King
Rufus King (January 26 1814 - October 13 1876) was a newspaper editor, educator, U.S. diplomat, and a Union brigadier general in the American Civil War. King was born in New York City, the grandson of Rufus King, delegate for Massachusetts to the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention. After graduation from Columbia College, where his father, Charles King, served as president, King enrolled in the United States Military Academy at West Point. - Truman Seymour
Truman Seymour (September 24, 1824 - October 30, 1891) was an a career soldier and an accomplished painter. He served in the Union Army during the American Civil War, rising to the rank of brigadier general. He commanded the Union troops at the Battle of Olustee, the only major Civil War battle fought in Florida. - Pat Foote
Pat Foote is a retired US Army Brigadier General. - Alexander Hays
Alexander Hays (July 8, 1819 - May 5, 1864) was a Union Army general in the American Civil War, killed in the Battle of the Wilderness. - Creighton Abrams
Creighton Williams Abrams Jr. was a United States Army general who commanded military operations in the Vietnam War from 1968-72 which saw U.S. troop strength fall from 530,000 to 30,000. He served as Chief of Staff of the United States Army from 1972 until shortly before his death in 1974. In honor of Abrams, the U.S. Army named the XM1 main battle tank after him as the M1 Abrams. - Gordon Granger
Gordon Granger (November 6, 1822 - January 10, 1876) was a Union Major General during the American Civil War. Granger was born in Joy, Wayne County, New York, in 1822. He graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1845. During the Mexican-American War, he fought in Winfield Scott's army. Between wars, he served on the frontier. His first fight in the Civil War was the Union defeat at Wilson's Creek, Missouri, in August 1861, … - Thomas Francis Meagher
Thomas Francis Meagher aka: "O'Meagher", or "Meagher of the Sword" (August 3, 1823 - July 1, 1867) was an Irish revolutionary, who also served in the United States Army as a Brigadier General during the U.S. Civil War. - Joshua Chamberlain
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (September 8 1828 - February 24 1914) was a college professor from Maine who volunteered to join the Union Army without the benefit of any formal military education, and became a highly respected and decorated Union officer during the American Civil War, reaching the rank of brigadier general (and brevet major general). For his gallantry at Gettysburg, he was awarded the Medal of Honor. - Martin Dempsey
Lieutenant General Martin E. Dempsey is the commander of Multi-National Security Transition Command - Iraq, the coalition command responsible for recruiting, training, and equipping the Iraqi Security Forces. It is the parent heaquarters of the Coalition Military Assistance Training Team (CMATT), the Coalition Police Assistance Training Team (CPATT), and the Coalition Air Force Training Team (CAFTT). - Glenn Miller
Alton Glenn Miller (March 1, 1904 - presumably December 15, 1944), was an American jazz musician and bandleader in the swing era. He was one of the best-selling recording artists from 1939 to 1942, leading one of the best known "Big Bands." During World War II, while traveling to entertain U.S. troops in France, his plane disappeared in bad weather. His body was never found. Miller's signature recordings - including, among others, "In the Mood", "Tuxedo Junction", … - Patrick Kelly
Patrick Kelly (ca. 1822 - June 14, 1864) was an Irish-American military officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He led the famed Irish Brigade at the Battle of Gettysburg. Kelly was born in Castlehacket, County Galway, Ireland, and emigrated to the United States, landing in New York City. His wife Elizabeth was another Irish immigrant. He enlisted in the Union army with the outset of the Civil War, … - John Brown Gordon
John Brown Gordon (February 6, 1832 - January 9, 1904) served as one of Robert E. Lee's most trusted Confederate generals during the American Civil War. After the war, he was a U.S. Senator, a railroad executive, an early leader of the Ku Klux Klan, and the Governor of Georgia from 1886 to 1890. - Robert Wilson
Robert Wilson (November 1803 - May 10, 1870) was a United States Senator from Missouri. Born near Staunton, Virginia, he moved to Howard County, Missouri in 1820 and taught school. In 1825 he was probate judge of Howard County and was clerk of the circuit and county courts from 1829 to 1840. In 1837 he was appointed brigadier general of the State forces and served during the so-called Mormon War. He studied law, was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in 1840. - Major Robert Anderson
Robert Anderson (June 14, 1805 - October 26, 1871) was a Union Army officer in the American Civil War, known for his command of Fort Sumter at the start of the war. He is often referred to using his rank of that time, Major Robert Anderson. - James Grant Wilson
James Grant Wilson (April 28, 1832 - February 1, 1914) was an American soldier, editor, and author. Wilson was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. He emigrated to New York City and then moved to Illinois. He was educated chiefly by private tutors and through travel in Europe. In 1857 he founded the Chicago "Record", a journal of art and literature, and entered the Union Army late in 1862 as a major of the 15th Illinois Cavalry, commanded the 4th U.S.C. Cavalry as colonel, … - Lewis Addison Armistead
Lewis Addison Armistead (February 18, 1817 - July 5, 1863) was a Confederate brigadier general in the American Civil War, mortally wounded in Pickett's Charge at the Battle of Gettysburg.
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