The US Marines who ended John Brown’s raid at Harper’s Ferry in 1859 where led by this man.
J.E.B. Stuart
U.S. Grant
Philip Sheridan
Robert E. Lee
Robert E. Lee. Then a colonel in the US Army, Lee was on leave at his home in Arlington, VA, when President James Buchanan ordered him to take command of the Marine detachment, the only Federal troops in the area, and end the raid.