page_title: List of Yale University people
section_title: Military
hierarchical_section_title: List of Yale University people / Military
caption_attribution_description: English: James Camp Tappan
context_page_description: Yalies are persons affiliated with Yale University, commonly including alumni, current and former faculty members, students, and others. Here follows a list of notable Yalies.
context_section_description: John Brown (B.A. 1771), accuser of Benedict Arnold
  Henry B. Carrington (1845), Union army general in the American Civil War
  A. Peter Dewey, first American to be killed in the Vietnam War, in 1945
  Nathan Hale (B.A. 1773), America's first spy, executed by the British for espionage in 1776; his last words are often quoted: "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."
  Rene Edward De Russy Hoyle, army general
  David Humphreys (B.A. 1771), aide-de-camp to George Washington
  Lewis Nixon, army officer featured in Band of Brothers
  William Odom, Director of the National Security Agency
  Jarvis Offutt (1917), World War I aviator, namesake of Offutt Air Force Base
  John Paterson (B.A. 1762), major general in the American Revolution and congressman from New York
  John Francisco Richards II (B.A. 1917), World War I aviator, namesake of Richards-Gebaur Air Force Base
  Richard K. Sutherland (B.A. 1916), army general during World War II
  Benjamin Tallmadge (B.A. 1773), head of General George Washington's Culper spy ring on Long Island and New York
  James Camp Tappan (B.A. 1845), Confederate army general in the American Civil War (See also: State officials)
  Decius Wadsworth (1785), Colonel U.S. Army War of 1812 and Chief of Ordnance 1815–1821
  Nathan Whiting (B.A. 1743), colonel of Connecticut troops during the French and Indian War; nephew of university president Thomas Clap
  David Wooster (B.A. 1738), brigadier general in the American Revolutionary War; namesake of Wooster, Ohio, The College of Wooster, and the Wooster School
caption: James Camp Tappan
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