Military
- Holman S. Melcher, attended from 1858–62, Civil War hero at the Battle of Gettysburg with the 20th Maine
- Aaron S. Daggett, attended 1860, Civil War brigadier general of the volunteers, abolitionist, last surviving Civil War general, died in 1938.
- Joseph F. Warren, Seminary Class of 1862, received the Medal of Honor with the 27th Maine Regiment in the Civil War.
- Josiah Chase, attended 1861, received the Medal of Honor with the 27th Maine Regiment in the Civil War.
- Frederick Hayes, attended 1860-61, received the Medal of Honor with the 27th Maine Regiment in the Civil War.
- James Porter, attended 1862-1863, Killed at Little Bighorn at "Custer's Last Stand"
- Lewis L. Millett, Class of 1949, received the Medal of Honor during the Korean War for leading the last major American bayonet charge.
- Scott Anderson, Class of 1982, member of the Blue Angels flight demonstration team twice.
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Famous quotes containing the word military:
“I’m not a military man, Captain. War holds no romance for me. The side effects are repulsive.”
—Richard Bluel, and Henry Hathaway. Major Hugh Tarkington (Clinton Greyn)
“Personal prudence, even when dictated by quite other than selfish considerations, surely is no special virtue in a military man; while an excessive love of glory, impassioning a less burning impulse, the honest sense of duty, is the first.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“The transformation of the impossible into reality is always the mark of a demonic will. The only way to recognize a military genius is by the fact that, during the war, he will mock the rules of warfare and will employ creative improvisation instead of tested methods and he will do so at the right moment.”
—Stefan Zweig (18811942)