Military Figures
- Jack Agnew – inspiration for the novel and film The Dirty Dozen
- Louis H. Carpenter – Brig. General, Medal of Honor recipient, vet of Civil War, Indian Wars, and Spanish-American War
- William Guarnere – US Army Staff Sergeant, made famous by Band of Brothers (TV miniseries)
- John J. McVeigh – Medal of Honor recipient
- Thomas H. Neill – Union army general
- John C. Pemberton – Commander of Confederate defenders at the Siege of Vicksburg
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Famous quotes containing the words military and/or figures:
“Nothing changes my twenty-six years in the military. I continue to love it and everything it stands for and everything I was able to accomplish in it. To put up a wall against the military because of one regulation would be doing the same thing that the regulation does in terms of negating people.”
—Margarethe Cammermeyer (b. 1942)
“The figures of the past go cloaked.
They walk in mist and rain and snow
And go, go slowly, but they go.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)