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  1. 1 day ago · The next morning, he discovered that soldiers under his command had begun killing an estimated 45 to 100 wounded black Union soldiers of the 5th United States Colored Cavalry. Hearing the gunfire, he rushed to stop the massacre. Brigadier General Felix Huston Robertson was suspected of involvement and bragged about killing the negroes. General ...

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      Joseph Cabell Breckinridge (July 14, 1788 – September 1,...

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      Clifton Rodes Breckinridge (November 22, 1846 – December 3,...

  2. 2 days ago · Ulysses S. Grant (born Hiram Ulysses Grant; [b] April 27, 1822 – July 23, 1885) was an American military officer, politician, and the 18th president of the United States, who served from 1869 to 1877. As commanding general, Grant led the Union Army to victory in the American Civil War in 1865 and briefly served as U.S. secretary of war.

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  4. 3 days ago · George Smith Patton Jr. (November 11, 1885 – December 21, 1945) was a general in the United States Army who commanded the Seventh Army in the Mediterranean Theater of World War II, and the Third Army in France and Germany after the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944. Born in 1885, Patton attended the Virginia Military Institute and the ...

    • 1909–1945
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  5. 6 days ago · James MaitlandStewart (May 20, 1908 – July 2, 1997) was an American actor and military officer. Known for his distinctive drawl and everyman screen persona, Stewart's film career spanned 80 films from 1935 to 1991. With the strong morality, which he portrayed both on and off the screen, he epitomized the " American ideal " in the mid ...

  6. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Curtis_LeMayCurtis LeMay - Wikipedia

    1 day ago · The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress July 9, 1918, takes pleasure in presenting the Distinguished Service Cross to Brigadier General [then Colonel (Air Corps)] Curtis Emerson LeMay, United States Army Air Forces, for extraordinary heroism in connection with military operations against an armed enemy while ...

    • 1929–1965
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  7. 5 days ago · In the early months of the American Revolution, the first regular U.S. fighting force, the Continental Army, was organized by the Second Continental Congress on June 14, 1775. It comprised the 22,000 militia troops then besieging Boston and an additional 5,000 militiamen in New York. It was placed under the control of a five-member civilian ...

  8. 13 hours ago · Brigadier General Charles D. Bolton: U.S. Air Force: Confirmed by the Senate 5 December 2023: United States Air Force: Deputy Chief of Chaplains of the United States Air Force: U.S. Air Force Chaplain Corps: Chief of Chaplains of the United States Air Force (HAF/HC) Brigadier General Trent C. Davis: U.S. Air Force: Confirmed by the Senate

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