For 10 points, identify this victor at Veracruz, a U.S. general known as "Old Fuss and Feathers."
During a disastrous posting in New Orleans as a young officer, this man was shot in the head after challenging a master surgeon to a duel, and court-martialed after denouncing infamous traitor James Wilkinson for moving their camp closer to his favorite whorehouse. He managed a volatile Charleston during the Nullification Crisis and was mocked in later life for the phrase "hasty plate of soup" in a letter to William Marcy during a campaign in which he was forced to try and hang the St. Patrick's Battalion. This mediator during the Pig and Aroostook wars won at Cerror Gordo and Chapultepec but lost as the Whig opponent of Franklin Pierce in 1852, and by the time he formulated the Anaconda Plan in the Civil War was famously too fat to mount a horse. For 10 points, identify this victor at Veracruz, a U.S. general known as "Old Fuss and Feathers."
During a disastrous posting in New Orleans as a young officer, this man was shot in the head after challenging a master surgeon to a duel, and court-martialed after denouncing infamous traitor James Wilkinson for moving their camp closer to his favorite whorehouse.
Winfield Scott