James Longstreet (January 8, 1821 – January 2, 1904) was a Confederate general during the US Civil War and was the principal subordinate to General Robert E. Lee. He fought in the Mexican American War and was wounded at the Battle of Chapultapec.
In March 1851 and returned to the Eighth Infantry. Longstreet served on frontier duty in Texas at Fort Martin Scott near Fredericksburg. The primary purpose of the military in Texas was to protect frontier communities against Indians, and Longstreet frequently participated in scouting missions against the Comanche. Wikipedia
He resigned from the US Army to join the Confederate Army when the US Civil War began. He fought in most major engagements under Lee. He was seriously wounded by friendly fire during the 1864 Battle of the Wilderness. He and Robert E Lee had a falling out. He then commanded troops under Braxton Bragg. Later he returned to serve under Lee until the end of the war.
After the war he moved to New Orleans and was unsuccessful at his various attempts to start businesses. He encouraged Southern whites to join the heavily Northern Republican Party, arguing that if they did not, the Southern wing of the party would be exclusively dominated by blacks, whereas white men joining the party would allow the black vote to be controlled. When Grant became president he won an appointment as surveyor. Southerners blamed Longstreet for their defeat at Gettysburgh and the loss of the war. His reputation in the South further suffered when he led African-American militia against the anti-Reconstruction White League at the Battle of Liberty Place in 1874.
He served in many government positions including Diplomat the to the Ottoman Empire. He died in 1904 in Gainesville FL.
Choe Hyon also known as Sai Ken (6 May 1907 – 10 April 1982) was a North Korean general and politician. He was born in Jilin China to Korean parents and was arrested by the Japanese in 1925. He was held for 7 years, after he became a guerilla resistance fighter in Manchuria during World War II.
He was good friends with Kim Il Sung which elevated him to elite status along with certain other former guerilla fighters. Choe commanded the 2nd Division of the KPA and, during the Korean War, the II Corps.
As a member of the Central Military Commission of the WPK, Choe was one of “the seven most powerful men in North Korea”. With his post as the Minister of People’s Armed Forces, Choe was “probably the most powerful individual in the military area other than Kim Il-sŏng himself.” Wikipedia
In 1968 he became the Minister of the People’s Armed Forces of North Korea and served in the Politburo.
Choe published an autobiography, Over the Mountain-Waves of Mt. Paektu. Robert A. Scalapino and Chong-Sik Lee critically assess it as follows: “Though very revealing, some sections, particularly on his first encounters with Kim Il-sŏng, are so propagandistic as to be largely unreliable”. Wikipedia
Hyon Choe died on 10 April 1982. The 30th anniversary of his death in 2012 was marked prominently in North Korea. The Choe Hyon class destroyer is named after him.