List of People From Mississippi - Military Figures

Military Figures

  • William Wirt Adams (1819–1888), brigadier general, CSA, (Jackson)
  • Van T. Barfoot (born 1919), World War II colonel and Medal of Honor recipient, (Edinburg)
  • William Barksdale (1821–1863), brigadier general, CSA, died at Gettysburg, (Jackson)
  • William Billingsley (1887–1913), ensign, first Navy aviator killed in an airplane crash, (Winona)
  • Alvin C. Cockrell (1918–1942), second lieutenant, USMC, killed in World War II, (Hazelhurst)
  • Nathan Bedford Forrest (1821–1877), general, CSA, (Hernando)
  • Walter "Smokey" Gordon (1920–1997), World War II veteran, portrayed in the HBO mini-series Band Of Brothers
  • Jeffery Hammond (born 1978), major general, U.S. Army (Hattiesburg)
  • Randolph M. Holder (1918–1942), USN lieutenant (junior grade), (Jackson)
  • Felix Huston (1800–1857), general, Texas army, (Natchez)
  • Samuel Reeves Keesler (1896–1918), Army aviator, (Greenwood)
  • Newt Knight (1837–1922), Unionist leader, (Jones County)
  • Roy Joseph Marchand (1920–1942), World War II fireman first class, (Crandall)
  • Henry Pinckney McCain (1861–1941), adjutant general, US Army, (Carroll County)
  • John S. McCain, Sr. (1884–1945), USN admiral, (Teoc)
  • Donald H. Peterson (born 1933), USAF colonel and NASA astronaut, (Winona)
  • Charles Read (1840–1890), naval officer, (Meridian)
  • Viola B. Sanders (born 1921), USN captain, director of women, U.S. Navy, (Sidon)
  • Daniel Isom Sultan (1885–1947), inspector general, U.S. Army, (Oxford)
  • James Monroe Trotter (1842–1892), first man of color to achieve rank of 2nd Lieutenant, U.S. Army, music historian, (Gulfport)
  • Richard H. Truly (born 1937), USN vice-admiral, astronaut, NASA administrator, (Fayette)
  • Louis Wilson, Jr. (1920–2005), Commandant of the Marine Corps and Medal of Honor recipient, Brandon, Mississippi

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