List of Popular American Soldiers

Henry S. Yount was an American Civil War soldier, mountain man, professional hunter and trapper, prospector, wilderness guide and packer, seasonal employee of the United States Department of the Interior, and the first gamekeeper in Yellowstone National Park. He was nicknamed Rocky Mountain Harry Yount.....
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David Lewis Payne was an American soldier and pioneer. Payne is considered by some to be the Father of Oklahoma for his work in opening the state to settlement.....
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Private First Class David M. Gonzales was a United States Army soldier who posthumously received the Medal of Honor the United States highest military decoration for his actions during World War II. On April 25, 1945, at age 21, PFC Gonzales was killed in action in the Philippines while, in the face of enemy machine gun fire, digging out fellow soldiers who had been buried in a bomb explosion.....
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George Henry Wanton was a Buffalo Soldier in the United States Army and a recipient of Americas highest military decorationthe Medal of Honorfor his actions in the SpanishAmerican War.....
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George Henry Chapman was an American sailor, newspaper editor, lawyer, and soldier. He served in the United States Navy during the MexicanAmerican War and as a Union Army general during the American Civil War. Later in life he was a judge and a state legislator.....
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George Leonard Andrews was an American professor, civil engineer, and soldier. He was a Brigadier General in the Union Army during the American Civil War and was awarded the honorary grade of brevet Major General.....
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Christopher Columbus Andrews was an American soldier, diplomat, newspaperman, author, and forester.....
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Christopher Greene was an American legislator and soldier. He is best known for leading the spirited defense of Fort Mercer in the 1777 Battle of Red Bank, and for leading the African American 1st Rhode Island Regiment during the American Revolutionary War, most notably with distinction in the 1778 Battle of Rhode Island. He was killed in May 1781 by Loyalists, possibly because he was known to lead African American troops.....
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George Catlett Marshall, Jr. was an American statesman and soldier, famous for his leadership roles during World War II and the Cold War. He was Chief of Staff of the United States Army under two presidents, and served as Secretary of State, and then Secretary of Defense, under President Harry S. Truman. He was hailed as the organizer of victory by Winston Churchill, for his leadership of the Allied victory in World War II. Marshall served as the United States Army Chief of Staff during the war....
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David Davy Crockett was a 19thcentury American folk hero, frontiersman, soldier, and politician. He is commonly referred to in popular culture by the epithet King of the Wild Frontier. He represented Tennessee in the U.S. House of Representatives and served in the Texas Revolution.....
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Eli Lilly was an American soldier, pharmacist, chemist, and businessman. He was the founder of the Eli Lilly and Company pharmaceutical corporation. Lilly enlisted in the Union Army during the American Civil War he recruited a company of men to serve with him in an artillery battery, was later promoted to colonel, and was given command of a cavalry unit. He was captured near the end of the war and held as a prisoner of war until its conclusion. After the war, he attempted to run a plantation in....
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Day G. Turner was a United States Army soldier and a recipient of the United States militarys highest decorationthe Medal of Honorfor his actions in World War II.....
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Deane Keller was an American artist, academic, soldier, art restorer and preservationist. He taught for forty years at Yale Universitys School of Fine Arts and during World War II was an officer with the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives program.....
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George Taro Joe Sakato was an American combat soldier of World War II who received the Medal of Honor, the nations highest military award for valor.....
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George Washington Morgan was an American soldier, lawyer, politician, and diplomat. He fought in the Texas Revolution and the MexicanAmerican War, and was a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Morgan later served as a threeterm postbellum United States Congressman from Ohio.....
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Colonel Elmer Ephraim Ellsworth was a law clerk and United States Army soldier, best known as the first conspicuous casualty and the first Union officer killed in the American Civil War. Before his death, as tension built up toward the war, he had been the leader of a famous touring military drill team known as the Fire Zouaves and was a close personal friend of Abraham Lincoln. He was killed while removing a Confederate flag from the roof of the Marshall House Inn of Alexandria, Virginia, at L....
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Elmer E. Fryar was a United States Army soldier and a recipient of the United States militarys highest decorationthe Medal of Honorfor his actions in World War II.....
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George Washington Cullum was an American soldier, engineer and writer. He served as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War, primarily serving in the Western Theater. Cullum also served as the 16th Superintendent of the United States Military Academy.....
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George Washington Steele was an American lawyer, soldier, and politician who twice served as a Congressman for Indiana, from 1881 to 1889 and again from 1895 to 1903. Steele was also the first Governor of Oklahoma Territory and was instrumental in developing the states public education system and its two largest universities.....
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George Wright was an American soldier who served in the MexicanAmerican War and the American Civil War.....
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