The US Presidents who were Civil War veterans who saw combat action were Grant, Hayes, Garfield and McKinley. Andrew Johnson has military rank as the military governor of Tennessee and Arthur was a supply officer in a non-combat position. Fillmore had a sort of honorary position in the home guard.
Hayes
Garfield
McKinley
Nurses
Nurses. They served as Nurses.
Breckenridge served as a Confederate general, rising to three star rank as a Lieutenant General. He was the last Secretary of War for the Confederacy.
The Mexican War (1846-48). Many men who were Civil War generals were junior officers in the Mexican War.
An estimated 400 women served during the Civil War, disguising themselves as men
Ulysses S. Grant. There were other Presidents who served in the Civil War but I don't think any were generals.
Nearly three million soldiers served in the US Civil War.
Taylor, Pierce, Buchanan.
I count five: Grant, Hayes, Garfield, B. Harrison and McKinley.
He served for almost three years during the Civil War.
Three presidents who built their reputation in the military are George Washington, Ulysses S. Grant, and Dwight D. Eisenhower. Washington served as the commander of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, Grant was a Union general in the American Civil War, and Eisenhower was the Supreme Commander of the Allied forces in Europe during World War II.
There was no "governor" of the civil war. There were to Presidents, the Union and Confederacy.
Reagan and Johnson
There has not been a U.S President that served in Vietnam.
25,000 served in the motha fckin union forces during the civil war
ibraham lincoln
The American civil war.