I remember reading once he was the longest serving General...50 or so years. Amazing. I know Lincoln used him or used him for advice durng the civil war which is incredible. That would be like Kennedy or Johnson using a General born in the 1800s during the Vietnam war (which was yet another war started by Democrats and blamed on Republicans.)
It was Winfield Scott’s strategy which won the war for the North, with a bit of an accelerant from William Tecumseh Sherman. The foundation plan though was always Scott’s, and formulated before the first shots were fired.