- Ulysses S. Grant
Ulysses S. Grant (born Hiram Ulysses Grant, April 27, 1822 - July 23, 1885) was an American general and the eighteenth President of the United States (1869-1877). He achieved international fame as the leading Union general in the American Civil War, capturing Vicksburg in 1863 and Richmond in 1865. He accepted the surrender of his Confederate opponent Robert E. Lee at Appomattox Court House. - Zachary Taylor
Zachary Taylor (November 24, 1784 - July 9, 1850) was an American military leader and the twelfth President of the United States. Known as "Old Rough and Ready," Taylor had a 40-year military career in the U.S. Army, serving in the War of 1812, Black Hawk War, and Second Seminole War after achieving fame while leading U.S. troops to victory at several critical battles of the Mexican-American War. A Southern slaveholder who opposed the spread of slavery to the territories, … - Winfield Scott
Winfield Scott (June 13, 1786 - May 29, 1866) was a United States Army general, diplomat, and presidential candidate. Known as "Old Fuss and Feathers" and the "Grand Old Man of the Army", he served on active duty as a general longer than any other man in American history and most historians rate him the ablest American commander of his time. Over the course of his fifty-year career, he commanded forces in the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War, the Black Hawk War, … - Robert E. Lee
Robert Edward Lee (January 19, 1807 - October 12, 1870) was a career U.S. Army officer and the most celebrated general of the Confederate forces during the American Civil War. Lee was the son of Maj. Gen. Henry Lee III "Light Horse Harry" (1756-1818), Governor of Virginia, and his second wife, Anne Hill Carter (1773-1829). He was a descendant of Thomas More and of King Robert II of Scotland through the Earls of Crawford. - Jefferson Davis
Jefferson Finis Davis was an American politician who served as President of the Confederate States of America for its entire history from 1861 to 1865 during the American Civil War. Davis believed that corruption had destroyed the old Union and that the Confederacy had to be pure to survive. During his presidency, Davis was never able to find a strategy that would defeat the larger, more industrially developed Union. - 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. - 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. - Porfirio Díaz
José de la Cruz Porfirio Díaz Mori (15 September 1830 - 2 July 1915) was a Mexican-American War volunteer, French Intervention hero, and President. He ruled Mexico from 1876 to 1880 and from 1884 to 1911. - George Meade
George Gordon Meade (December 31, 1815 - November 6, 1872) was a career U.S. Army officer and civil engineer involved in coastal construction, including several lighthouses. He fought with distinction in the Seminole War and Mexican-American War. During the American Civil War he served as a Union general, rising from command of a brigade to the Army of the Potomac. He is best known for defeating Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee at the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863. - John Slidell
John Slidell (1793 - July 26, 1871), a native of New York City, moved to Louisiana and became a U.S. representative and a U.S. senator from that state in the mid-nineteenth century. - Robert Carlyle
Robert Carlyle OBE (born April 14, 1961) is a Scottish movie actor. He is known for his roles as Gaz, the leader of the striptease dancers in "The Full Monty", and as Begbie, the volatile thug in "Trainspotting". - Stephen W. Kearny
Stephen Watts Kearny (August 30, 1794 - October 31, 1848) was a United States Army officer, noted for his part in the Mexican-American War, especially the conquest of California. The Kearny code, which sought to govern government behavior towards Californios, was named after him. - Niños Héroes
"Los Niños Héroes " were six teenage military cadets who died defending Mexico City's Chapultepec Castle (then serving as the Mexican army's military academy) from invading U.S. forces in the 13 September 1847 Battle of Chapultepec. Their commanders, General Nicolás Bravo and General José Mariano Monterde, had ordered them to fall back from Chapultepec but the cadets did not; instead, they resisted the invaders until they were killed, … - 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. - 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. - Winfield Scott Hancock
Winfield Scott Hancock (February 14, 1824 - February 9, 1886) was a career U.S. Army officer who served with distinction in the Mexican-American War and as a Union general the American Civil War. Hancock was noted in particular for his personal leadership at the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863. A military historian wrote, "No other Union general at Gettysburg dominated men by the sheer force of their presence more completely than Hancock." After the Civil War, … - David Wilmot
David Wilmot was a U.S. political figure. He was a sponsor and eponym of the Wilmot Proviso which aimed to ban slavery in land gained from Mexico in the Mexican-American War of 1846–48. Wilmot was a Democrat, a Free Soiler, and a Republican during his political career. His opposition to slavery did not include the abolitionist position of ending slavery in the entire country, and his views on race, by today’s standards, can be classified as racist. - Preston Brooks
Preston Smith Brooks (August 5, 1819 - January 27, 1857) was a Congressman from South Carolina, notorious for brutally assaulting senator Charles Sumner on the floor of the United States Senate. His first cousin, Matthew Butler, was a Confederate general. Born in Edgefield County, South Carolina, he attended South Carolina College (now known as the University of South Carolina), but was expelled just before graduation for threatening local police officers with fire arms. - Mariano Arista
Mariano Arista was president of Mexico from 1851 to 1853, as well as a noted veteran of many of Mexico's nineteenth century wars. Originally an officer in the Spanish Army, Arista later joined the revolutionary army of Agustín de Iturbide. Later, Arista served under Antonio López de Santa Anna, Mexico's on-again off-again dictator during the attempt to put down the 1836 Texas Revolution. - Robert F. Stockton
Robert Field Stockton (20 August 1795 - 7 October 1866) was an United States naval commodore, notable in the capture of California during the Mexican-American War. Stockton was from a notable political family and also served as a U.S. Senator from New Jersey. - William S. Harney
William Selby Harney (22 August 1800 - 9 May 1889) was a cavalry officer in the U.S. Army during the Mexican-American War and the Indian Wars. - David E. Twiggs
David Emanuel Twiggs (1790 - July 15, 1862) was a United States soldier during the War of 1812 and Mexican-American War and a general of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. Twiggs was born on the "Good Hope" estate in Richmond County, Georgia, son of John Twiggs, a general in the Georgia militia during the American Revolution. Twiggs volunteered for service in the War of 1812 and subsequently served in the Seminole Wars and the Black Hawk War. - 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, … - George Henry Thomas
George Henry Thomas (July 31, 1816 - March 28, 1870) was a career U.S. Army officer and a Union general during the American Civil War, one of the principal commanders in the Western Theater. Thomas served in the Mexican-American War and later chose to remain with the United States Army for the Civil War, despite his heritage as a Virginian. He won one of the first Union victories in the war, at Mill Springs in Kentucky, … - Mariano Paredes
Mariano Paredes y Arrillaga (Mexico City, c. January 7, 1797 - September 7, 1849 in Mexico City) was an ultraconservative Mexican general and president. He took power in a coup d'etat in 1846. He was the president at the start of the Mexican-American War. - Robert Patterson
Robert Patterson (January 12, 1792 - August 7,1881) was an Irish immigrant and a noted soldier and businessman from Pennsylvania. Patterson was born in Cappagh, County Tyrone, Ireland. His family was banished from Ireland due to his father's involvement as an insurrectionist. He emigrated to the United States, in 1799, where he eventually became involved in banking at a young age. - John E. Wool
John Ellis Wool (February 20, 1784 - November 10, 1869) was an officer in the United States Army during three consecutive U.S. wars: the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War and the American Civil War. By the time of the Mexican war, he was widely considered one of the most capable officers in the army and a superb organizer. He was one of the four general officers of the United States Army in 1861, and was the one who saw the most Civil War service. - William J. Worth
William Jenkins Worth (March 1, 1794 - May 7, 1849) was a United States general during the Mexican-American War. - Thomas Welsh
Thomas Welsh (May 5, 1824 - August 14, 1863) was a soldier in the U.S. Army during the Mexican-American War and a brigadier general during the American Civil War. Welsh was born in Columbia, Pennsylvania, and was educated in the town's common schools. He engaged in the lumber business before enlisting in the army to fight in the Mexican War, where he was wounded at the Battle of Buena Vista. Welsh received a promotion to lieutenant for gallantry. - 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. - Juan Cortina
Juan Nepomuceno Cortina Goseacochea (May 16 1824-October 30 1894), better known as Juan Cortina or by his nicknames "Cheno Cortina" and "the Red Robber of the Rio Grande", was a Mexican rancher, politician, military leader, outlaw and folk hero. He is famous for leading a Mexican force of irregulars and outlaws organized as a guerrilla insurgency first against the Republic of Texas, … - Raphael Semmes
Raphael Semmes (September 27, 1809 - August 30, 1877) was an officer in the United States Navy from 1826 to 1860 and the Confederate States Navy from 1860 to 1865. During the American Civil War he was captain of the famous commerce raider CSS "Alabama", taking a record fifty-five prizes. Late in the war he was promoted to admiral and also served briefly as a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army. - Sarah Knox Taylor
Sarah Knox "Knoxie" Taylor (June 3, 1814 in Vincennes, Indiana - September 15, 1835 in St. Francisville, Louisiana) was the daughter of General Zachary Taylor, later President of the United States, and Margaret Taylor. While living at Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin where her father commanded Fort Crawford and fought the Black Hawk Wars, Sarah met and fell in love with her father's second in command, Jefferson Davis, later President of the Confederate States of America. - Manuel Armijo
Manuel Armijo was a New Mexican soldier and statesman who served three times as governor of New Mexico. He was instrumental in putting down the Revolt of 1837, he led the force that captured the Texan Santa Fe Expedition, and he surrendered to the United States in the Mexican-American War. - John C. Pemberton
John Clifford Pemberton (August 10, 1814 - July 13, 1881), was a career U.S. Army officer and Confederate general in the American Civil War, noted for his defeat and surrender in the critical Battle of Vicksburg. Pemberton was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He graduated from the U.S. Military Academy in 1837, served in the artillery, and then the Mexican-American War. - Andrés Pico
General Don Andrés Pico was an influential Mexican-Californian in the mid-19th Century. He was born to José María Pico and Maria Eustaquia Lopez in San Diego, California. In 1845, Andres Pico and Juan Manso were granted a nine-year lease for the San Fernando Valley. Pico, at that time a 35-year old rancher, lived in Los Angeles. He ran cattle on his ranch and made the Mission his rancho home. - John A. Logan
John Alexander Logan (February 8, 1826 - December 26, 1886), was an American soldier and political leader. He served in the Mexican-American War and was a general in the Union Army in the American Civil War. He served the state of Illinois as a Senator and was an unsuccessful candidate for Vice President of the United States. - Samuel Ringgold
Samuel B. Ringgold (1796 - May 11, 1846) was an artillery officer in the United States Army who was noted for several military innovations which caused him to be called the "Father of Modern Artillery." He was also, famously, the first U.S. officer to fall in the Mexican-American War, perishing from wounds inflicted during the Battle of Palo Alto. - Earl van Dorn
Earl Van Dorn (September 17, 1820 - May 7, 1863) was a career U.S. Army officer and a Confederate major general during the American Civil War. Born near Port Gibson, Mississippi, Van Dorn graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1842 being ranked 52 out of 56. He fought in the Mexican-American War and against the Seminoles and Comanches, and this experience led to his rapid advancement in the Confederate States Army, … - Jose Antonio Yorba
José Antonio Yorba, known also as Don José Antonio Yorba I, was one of the important early settlers of Spanish California (then known as Alta California). Born in Sant Sadurní d'Anoia in Catalonia, Spain, Yorba first came to the New World as an officer in the Gaspar de Portolà Expedition of 1769.
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