The Democratic Party chose for its presidential candidate a hero of the Civil War -- General Winfield Scott Hancock of Pennsylvania.

VOA: special.2010.04.22

Benjamin was a lawyer. He had been a General in the Union Army during America's Civil War of the eighteen sixties.

VOA: special.2010.05.27

The War Department sent General George Crook to punish the Indians and force them back to their reservation.

VOA: special.2010.04.08

Confederate General Robert E.Lee saw it as a sign of weakness in the northern war effort.

VOA: special.2009.11.05

The Senate is expected to quickly confirm General David Petraeus to lead the nearly nine-year-old war.

VOA: special.2010.06.26

General Stanley McChrystal has warned that without more troops, the United States could lose the war.

VOA: special.2009.10.10

Southerners also were named as secretary of war, interior secretary and postmaster general.

VOA: special.2009.05.14

Military history experts continue to study General MacArthur's decisions during World War Two.

VOA: special.2009.05.24

General Taylor and his men never lost a battle in the Mexican War.

VOA: special.2009.03.05

Some say that General George Washington used it during the American Revolutionary War.

VOA: special.2009.01.25

In nineteen fifty-one he dismissed General Douglas MacArthur during the Korean War.

VOA: special.2010.06.26

General Grant was beginning to learn an important lesson of the war.

VOA: special.2009.11.26

During the Civil War, the general had been a great hero.

VOA: special.2010.02.11

But the minister of war was an expansionist, General Tojo.

VOA: special.2011.05.26

The commission has numerous logistical obstacles to overcome to hold a general election in a country recovering from war.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

Forrest! Now, when I was a baby, Mama named me afterthe great Civil War hero General Nathan Bedford Forrest.

VOA: standard.other

The U.S.Commander in Afghanistan, Army General Stanley McChrystal, has said the U.S.will likely lose the war if the administration does not send more troops.

VOA: standard.2009.10.01

The top U.S.commander in Afghanistan, Army General Stanley McChrystal, has warned that the war with the Taliban could be lost if more troops are not deployed.

VOA: standard.2009.10.19

President Obama saidhis replacement of his top commander in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal, with General David Petraeus will not slow U.S.efforts to win the Afghan war.

VOA: standard.2010.06.24

Mr.Rasmussen said NATO allies are now examining General McChrystal's assessment of the war.

VOA: standard.2009.09.29

Eide said he did not want to get into the debate over the need for additional international fighting forces, but he called U.S.Army General Stanley McChrystal's assessment of the war, "clear,straightforward and demanding."

VOA: standard.2009.09.29

The incident comes two months after the new commander of the international forces, U.S.General Stanley McChrystal, put in place new measures to prevent civilian casualties that he says undermine an anti-terrorism war in Afghanistan.

VOA: standard.2009.09.04