Military Leaders

Generals, admirals, and battlefield commanders whose tactics and decisions shaped the outcome of America's wars.

Benedict Arnold

Revolutionary War hero turned traitor, 1741–1801

George S. Patton

America's most aggressive — and most controversial — World War II commander

Nathanael Greene

Self-taught general who drove the British from the American South

Robert E. Lee

Confederate general and the South's most celebrated — and most contested — military commander

Sam Houston

President of Texas, U.S. Senator, and the man who refused to take the Confederacy's oath

The Marquis de Lafayette

The young French aristocrat who became a hero of the American Revolution

Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson

Confederate General, Army of Northern Virginia, 1861–1863

William Tecumseh Sherman

Union general whose March to the Sea broke the Confederacy's will to fight

Winfield Scott

General-in-Chief of the U.S. Army and the Soldier Who Defined an Era, 1786–1866