Robert Clayton Maffett (1836–1865), officer in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War
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James Thompson Maffett (1837–1912), Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
On August 26, 1864, while on picket line in Halltown, West Virginia, Lt. Col. Maffett and about 100 men of the 15th South Carolina were captured by Philip H. Sheridan's Federal cavalry.