** Lt. Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr., killed at Okinawa in 1945. Confederate General Simon Bolivar Buckner.
** U.S. Army Air Corps Brig. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest III, shot down and killed over Germany in 1942. His great-great grandfather was, of course, Nathan Bedford Forrest.
** President Theodore Roosevelt. His uncle was Confederate States Chief Foreign Agent James D. Bulloch.
** President Woodrow Wilson. His father was Reverend J.R. Wilson, Confederate chaplain.
** President Harry S. Truman was a Sons of Confederate Veterans member as a descendant of William Young who was a member of the Missouri Partisan Rangers.
--Old Secesh
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