who was the general with the wooden leg?

Answer 1

HE was general John Charles BECKWITH
I think he walked up the dolomite in Italy, as a missionary.

Answer 2

Mexican General Santa Anna had a wooden leg.

Answer 3

Peg Leg

Answer 4

There are many generals in history who have had a wooden leg.

But perhaps three of the most famous were both noted Confederate generals, JOHN BELL HOOD, and LIEUTENANT GENERAL RICHARD STODDERT EWELL, and Union General and recipient of the Medal of Honor, DANIEL SICKLES..

The answer lies at least partly in Hood's wounds. As every Civil Warrior knows, the General suffered two severe injuries during the war. At Gettysburg, as he was leading his division into action on the second day, Hood took shell fragments in the left biceps, elbow, forearm and hand. The damage required no amputation, but thereafter Hood's left arm rested limp and useless in a sling. A few months later, at Chickamauga, September 20, 1863, Hood was shot in the right leg high in the thigh. Medical officers amputated that night; the procedure went well, without complication. Still, by all odds, Hood's chances of recovery were iffy.. . . .

But in time, with crutches and a prosthetic leg, he was able to move about. By mid-January 1864 he was riding horseback. Clearly, with his left arm paralyzed in a sling, and his right leg gone, simply mounting his horse was a chore for Hood. As Confederate staff officer Joseph B. Cumming records, it took three aides to raise the General onto his horse, fix his wooden leg in the stirrup, and strap both Hood and his crutches to the saddle. But the General rode well and often after he returned to Georgia in February '64 as new corps commander in the Army of Tennessee.

General RICHARD S. EWELL (1817-1872). CSA Lieutenant General who succeeded Stonewall Jackson. He lost a leg at 2nd Manassas, received a wooden replacement and fought until his capture at Sayler's Creek on April 6, 1865.:

"Then in August came the Second Manassas Campaign. Ewell was renowned for his courage, a man who often led his division the way he had led his dragoon company--from the front. In the bloody slugout with the Union Iron Brigade at Brawner's Farm he once again yielded to his love of being in the middle of a fight. Leading one of his regiments forward in person, he was hit by a bullet which split his left kneecap, shattered the head of the tibia, then traveled down the marrow of the bone for six inches, fragmenting it into splinters. Surgeons amputated the leg the next day, and Ewell was out of the war for nine months while the wound healed, missing the Battles of Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, and Chancellorsville., but he was back in charge of his troops at Gettysburg.

(Ewell, however, was shot in his wooden leg by Union sharpshooters as he rode down an exposed Gettysburg street around noon. Ewell chirped to Brig. Gen. John Gordon, who accompanied him, "Suppose that ball had struck you: we would have had the trouble of carrying you off the field, sir. You see how much better fixed for a fight I am than you are? It don't hurt a bit to be shot in a wooden leg.")

Union General Daniel Sickles;

DANIEL E. SICKLES (1825-1914). Union major general with a reputation as a fierce fighter engaged at Antietam, Chancellorsville and Gettysburg, where he lost his right leg in an unauthorized advance from Little Round Top to Peach Orchard; later awarded the Medal of Honor.

" Take Dan Sickles, whose right leg was shattered by a solid shot at Gettysburg. After amputation at the thigh, General Sickles experienced pain for a while in his stump, but eventually returned to duty, and got about on crutches till his death in 1914.

Answer 5

Was he religious or spiritual??
How about some more clues here because it sounds unrelated to either subject matter in this category!
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Answer 6

blackbeard

Answer 7

patton

Answer 8

that one guy

Answer 9

Please specify the historic time period. Perhaps someone can help.