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Lewis Lee Millett Sr. (December 15, 1920 – November 14, 2009) was a United States Army officer who received the Medal of Honor during the Korean War for leading the last major American bayonet charge. He enlisted in the U.S. National Guard while still in high school and then in 1940 joined the U.S. Army Air Corps.
James Frye Senior Colonel and Commander of the Essex County Militia, known as "Frye's Regiment"; later absorbed into the 10th Massachusetts Regiment (Cambridge Brigade) with Frye as the senior Colonel of the Bridge; was in command of this Brigade at Bunker Hill as the senior militia Colonel in the state of Massachusetts.
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William Joseph Hardee (October 12, 1815 – November 6, 1873) was a career U.S. Army and Confederate States Army officer. For the U.S. Army, he served in the Second Seminole War and in the Mexican–American War, where he was captured and exchanged.
Colonel of Texas volunteers in Mexican–American War. Reappointed to U.S. Army in 1849, served on Texas frontier and in Utah War. Colonel and brevet brigadier general, U.S. Army. Commanded Department of Utah, 1858–1859, then Department of the Pacific. Resigned as colonel and brevet brigadier general, U.S. Army, May 3, 1861.
Lawrence Taliaferro (/ ˈ t ɒ l ɪ v ər / TOL-iv-ər; February 28, 1794 – January 22, 1871) [1] was a United States Army officer who served as an Indian agent at Fort Snelling, Minnesota from 1820 through 1839. [2] He was also part of the famous enslaved African American Dred Scott's struggle for freedom.
The list is drawn from graduates, non-graduate former cadets, current cadets, and faculty of the Military Academy. Notable graduates include 2 American Presidents , 4 additional heads of state , 20 astronauts, 76 Medal of Honor recipients (more than any other service academy or undergraduate institution), [ 10 ] 70 Rhodes Scholars , [ 11 ] and ...
But this short timed diversion allowed Colonel Miller to reach the hill and Miller had his men take concealed positions behind an old rail fence, along which was a growth of thick, low shrubbery. After approaching undiscovered, in whispers Miller ordered his men to rest their pieces across the fence, take good aim, and ambush the British cannon ...