page_title: List of people from Massachusetts
section_title: Military
hierarchical_section_title: List of people from Massachusetts / Military
caption_attribution_description: English: Gen. Joseph Hooker died 1879 , General of US Army during American Civil War (1861-1865).
context_page_description: This is a list of people who were born in/raised in, lived in, or have significant relations with the American state of Massachusetts. It includes both notable people born in the Commonwealth, and other notable people who are from the Commonwealth. People from Massachusetts are called "Massachusettsans" or "Bay Staters" after the Commonwealth's nickname.
context_section_description: Clarence Lionel Adcock – US Army, deputy to General Lucius D. Clay in 1946
  Nathaniel M. Allen – soldier in Civil War, awarded Medal of Honor
  George Bancroft – Secretary of the Navy and founder of the US Naval Academy
  William Francis Buckley – US Army officer and CIA operative; died in 1985 while being tortured by the Islamist group Hezbollah
  William Harvey Carney – African-American soldier in Civil War
  George W. Casey, Jr. – US Army general and Chief of Staff of the United States Army
  Christopher Cassidy – US Navy SEAL, NASA astronaut
  David Cohen (1917-2020) - a member of the US Army, a liberator of the Ohrdruf concentration camp, and a schoolteacher
  Joseph Dunford – United States Marine Corps general, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under Barack Obama
  John Wesley Emerson – Civil War commander
  General John Galvin – retired US Army; former dean of The Fletcher School at Tufts University
  Adolphus Greely – Polar explorer, US Army officer and recipient of the Medal of Honor
  Joseph Hooker – commander of the Army of the Potomac in the Civil War
  Cyprian Howe (1726–1806) – colonel in the American Revolutionary War
  Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. – US Navy lieutenant, killed in action during World War II
  Henry Knox – officer in the Continental Army, 1st United States Secretary of War
  Barry McCaffrey – four-star Army General, Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy
  George Patton IV (1923–2004) – major general in the U.S. Army
  Israel Putnam – major general in the American Revolutionary War
  Elmer J. Rogers, Jr. (1903–2002) – United States Air Force lieutenant general
  Andrew Jackson Smith – African-American soldier in the Civil War
  Robert Gould Shaw – US officer in Union Army, commanded the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment
  Charles Pomeroy Stone – soldier, explorer, and engineer
  Ralph Talbot (1897–1918) – United States Marine Corps pilot during World War I, Medal of Honor
  Steven N. Wickstrom – Army National Guard Major General who commanded the 42nd Infantry Division
  Timothy Bigelow – Revolutionary War patriot
caption: Joseph Hooker
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