The General was a horse owned by US President John Tyler. He was used as a warhorse during the Civil War. When he died, John Tyler had The General buried on his Sherwood Forest Plantation, in the Sherwood Forest Pet Cemetery. The horse's epitaph reads: "Here lies the bones of my old horse General who served his master faithfully,for twenty one years,and never made a blunder,would that his master could say the same!"