He became the first man since George Washington to obtain the title of lieutenant general.  
On the Niagara front in the War of 1812, he captured Fort George and Queenston, won the battle of Chippewa, and was wounded at Lundy's Lane.  He became the first man since George Washington to obtain the title of lieutenant general.  After supervising the removal of the Cherokee from Georgia via the Trail of Tears, he became a national hero for his series of victories at Molino del Rey, Churubusco, and Chapultepec.  Though he lost the 1852 Presidential election to Franklin Pierce, he retained enough energy in his last years of service to devise the "Anaconda Plan" for the destruction of the Confederacy. FTP, identify this general, whose insistence on military formality earned him the nickname "Old Fuss and Feathers."
On the Niagara front in the War of 1812, he captured Fort George and Queenston, won the battle of Chippewa, and was wounded at Lundy's Lane.  
Winfield Scott