Curated category
United States Military Academy alumni
- Edgar Allan PoeOn the 27th of May 1827, a young man named Edgar A. Perry enlisted in the United States Army under an assumed name. He was actually eighteen years old and…
- Ed White (astronaut)Edward Higgins White II was born on the 14th of November 1930, in San Antonio, Texas. His father Edward Higgins White Sr.
- Ulysses S. GrantHiram Ulysses Grant was born on the 27th of April 1822 in Point Pleasant, Ohio. His father Jesse Root Grant worked as a leather merchant and held strong Whig…
- Don Carlos BuellDon Carlos Buell was born on the 23rd of March 1818 in Lowell, Ohio. He entered a world where his father died when he was eight years old. His uncle James P.
- Dwight D. EisenhowerDwight David Eisenhower was born in Denison, Texas, on the 14th of October 1890. His family moved to Abilene, Kansas, the following year and lived there for…
- Buzz AldrinEdwin Eugene Aldrin Jr. was born on the 20th of January 1930 at Mountainside Hospital in Glen Ridge, New Jersey. His parents were Edwin Eugene Aldrin Sr.
- Joseph E. JohnstonJoseph Eggleston Johnston entered the world on the 3rd of February 1807 at Longwood House in Cherry Grove near Farmville Virginia.
- Robert E. LeeRobert Edward Lee was born at Stratford Hall Plantation in Westmoreland County, Virginia on the 19th of January 1807. His father Henry Lee III suffered…
- Joseph HookerJoseph Hooker was born on the 13th of November 1814 in Hadley, Massachusetts. He graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1837 with a rank of…
- Frank BormanFrank Frederick Borman II was born on the 14th of March 1928, at 2162 West 11th Avenue in Gary, Indiana. His father Edwin Otto Borman owned an Oldsmobile car…
- David ScottDavid Randolph Scott was born on the 6th of June, 1932 at Randolph Field near San Antonio, Texas. His father Tom William Scott served as a fighter pilot in…
- Braxton BraggBraxton Bragg was born on the 22nd of March 1817 in Warrenton, North Carolina. He grew up hearing unsubstantiated rumors that his mother had been convicted…
- John Pope (general)John Pope entered the world on the 16th of March 1822, in Louisville, Kentucky. His father Nathaniel Pope served as a prominent Federal judge in the early…
- Alfred WordenAlfred Merrill Worden was born on the 7th of February 1932 in Jackson, Michigan. He spent his early years living on a family farm outside that city.
- Michael Collins (astronaut)Michael Collins entered the world on the 31st of October 1930, inside a hospital in Rome, Italy. His father James Lawton Collins served as the United States…
- Douglas MacArthurDouglas MacArthur was born on the 26th of January 1880 at Little Rock Barracks in Arkansas. His father Arthur MacArthur Jr. served as a U.S.
- Jefferson DavisJefferson F. Davis was born on the 3rd of June 1808 at a family homestead in Davisburg, Kentucky. He was the youngest of ten children born to Jane and Samuel…
- William Tecumseh ShermanWilliam Tecumseh Sherman entered the world on the 8th of February 1820 in Lancaster, Ohio. His father Charles Robert Sherman was a lawyer and justice on the…
- Irvin McDowellIrvin McDowell was born on the 15th of October 1818 in Columbus, Ohio. His parents were Abram Irvin McDowell and Eliza Seldon McDowell.
- John Bell HoodJohn Bell Hood graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1853, ranking 44th out of a class that originally numbered 96 students.
- John SedgwickJohn Sedgwick was born on the 13th of September 1813 in Cornwall, Connecticut. He attended Sharon Academy for two years before studying at Cheshire Academy…
- Quincy Adams GillmoreQuincy Adams Gillmore entered the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, in 1845. He graduated in 1849 as first in a class of 43 members.
- George B. McClellanGeorge Brinton McClellan was born in Philadelphia on the 3rd of December 1826. His father George was a surgeon who founded Jefferson Medical College.
- James LongstreetJames Longstreet was born on the 8th of January 1821 in Edgefield District, South Carolina. His father James owned a cotton plantation near where Gainesville…
- Earl Van DornEarl Van Dorn entered the United States Military Academy in 1838. He graduated in 1842 with a low rank of 52nd out of 68 cadets.
- Gordon GrangerGordon Granger was born on the 6th of November 1821 in the small town of Joy, Wayne County, New York. His mother Catherine Taylor died on the 17th of April…
- John SchofieldJohn McAllister Schofield arrived in the world on the 29th of September 1831. He was born in Gerry, New York to Reverend James Schofield and Caroline…
- Timothy LearyTimothy Francis Leary was born on the 22nd of October 1920 in Springfield, Massachusetts. He grew up as an only child in a strict Irish Catholic household.
- Philip SheridanPhilip Henry Sheridan was born on the 6th of March 1831 in Albany, New York. He grew up in Somerset, Ohio as the third of six children to Irish Catholic…
- Albert Sidney JohnstonAlbert Sidney Johnston graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1826. He finished eighth out of forty-one cadets in his class and…
- David HunterDavid Hunter was born on the 21st of July 1802 in Troy, New York. His family lineage included Richard Stockton, a signer of the Declaration of Independence…
- George CrookGeorge R. Crook was born on the 8th of September 1828 to Thomas and Elizabeth Matthews Crook on a farm near Taylorsville, Ohio.
- George Henry ThomasOn the 31st of July 1816, George Henry Thomas was born at Newsom's Depot in Southampton County, Virginia. His family lived on a plantation that employed…
- Leonidas PolkLeonidas Polk was born on the 10th of April 1806 in Raleigh, North Carolina. His father William served as a Revolutionary War veteran and later became a…
- William W. AverellWilliam Woods Averell was born on the 5th of November 1832 in Cameron, New York. As a young boy, he worked as a drugstore clerk in the nearby town of Bath.
- George MeadeGeorge Gordon Meade arrived into the world on the 31st of December 1815, in the Spanish port city of Cádiz. He was the eighth child born to Richard Worsam…
- P. G. T. BeauregardPierre Gustave Toutant-Beauregard was born on the 28th of May 1818 at the Contreras sugar-cane plantation in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana.
- Ambrose BurnsideAmbrose Everts Burnside was born on the 23rd of May 1824 in Liberty, Indiana. He entered a family of nine children with Scottish and English roots.
- Nathaniel LyonNathaniel Lyon was born on the 14th of July 1818, to Amasa and Kezia Lyon. His father worked as a sawmill operator while also farming the land they owned.
- William Babcock HazenWilliam Babcock Hazen was born on the 27th of September 1830 in West Hartford, Vermont. He moved to Ohio when he was three years old and spent his boyhood in…
- William RosecransWilliam Starke Rosecrans was born on a farm near Little Taylor Run in Kingston Township, Delaware County, Ohio. He grew up as the second of five sons to…