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Military Commanders in Crime & Notoriety

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Benedict Arnold 1741–1801Notorious FiguresContinental Army general whose plot to surrender West Point made his name the American synonym for treason.Jefferson Davis 1808–1889Notorious FiguresPresident of the Confederacy whose defense of slavery and secession made him central to the Civil War and its memory.Nathan Bedford Forrest 1821–1877Notorious FiguresConfederate cavalry commander and early Ku Klux Klan leader whose legacy remains central to debates over racial violence and commemoration.